next chapter will show how you may also access the full power of the containers using programmatic mechanisms for configuration, as well as alternative declarative formats.
We'll be looking at:
Inversion of control and Dependency Injection
Basic object configuration and wiring of objects in the Spring container
How dependencies are resolved, and explicit versus automatic wiring of dependencies
Handling object lifecycles in the Spring container
Abstracting access to services and resources
Bean and bean factory post-processors for customizing bean and container behavior
Programmatic usage of the BeanFactory and ApplicationContext interfaces