The IoC Container

Section Summary

• Introduction to the Spring IoC Container and Beans
• Container Overview
• Bean Overview
• Dependencies
• Bean Scopes
• Customizing the Nature of a Bean
• Bean Definition Inheritance
• Container Extension Points
• Annotation-based Container Configuration
• Classpath Scanning and Managed Components
• Using JSR 330 Standard Annotations
• Java-based Container Configuration
• Environment Abstraction
• Registering a LoadTimeWeaver
• Additional Capabilities of the ApplicationContext
• The BeanFactory API