4 docs tagged with "beans"

The complete lifecycle of a Spring bean — from instantiation and dependency injection, through initialization callbacks, to destruction — and how to hook into each stage.

How Spring's bean scopes — singleton, prototype, request, session, and application — control when beans are created, how many instances exist, and how they interact with each other.

How Spring's container wires beans together using constructor, setter, and field injection, and when to use @Autowired, @Qualifier, and @Primary.

How Spring's Inversion of Control container manages bean definitions, wires dependencies, and controls object lifecycle using ApplicationContext and BeanFactory.