What is the use of BeanFactory?
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What is the use of BeanFactory?
The BeanFactory is the actual container which instantiates, configures, and manages a number of beans. These beans typically collaborate with one another, and thus have dependencies between themselves.
What is BeanFactory interface?
BeanFactory interface provides a simple, yet flexible configuration mechanism to manage objects of any nature via the Spring IoC container. Let’s have a look at some basics before diving deep into this central Spring API.
How do you implement BeanFactory?
- The first step is to create a factory object where we used the framework APIXmlBeanFactory() to create the factory bean andClassPathResource() API to load the bean configuration file available in CLASSPATH.
- The second step is used to get the required bean using getBean() method of the created bean factory object.
How do I use BeanFactory in Spring boot?
BeanFactory loads the bean definitions and dependency amongst the beans based on a configuration file(XML) or the beans can be directly returned when required using Java Configuration….Spring – BeanFactory.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| getBean(String name, Object… args) | Return an instance, which may be shared or independent, of the specified bean. |
Does BeanFactory support internationalization?
BeanFactory doesn’t provide support for internationalization i.e. i18n but ApplicationContext provides support for it.
How do I get BeanFactory from ApplicationContext?
This is done by accessing the ApplicationContext’s BeanFactory through the getBeanFactory() method, which returns the BeanFactory DefaultListableBeanFactory implementation. DefaultListableBeanFactory supports this registration through the registerSingleton(..) and registerBeanDefinition(..) methods.
What is IoC and dip?
Bookmark this question. Show activity on this post. IoC = Inversion Of Control. DIP = Dependency Inversion Principle (D in S.O.L.I.D.)
What is difference between BeanFactory and ApplicationContext?
While the BeanFactory provides basic functionality for managing and manipulating beans, often in a programmatic way, the ApplicationContext provides extra functionality like MessageSource, Access to resources, Event propagation to beans, Loading of multiple (hierarchical) contexts etc.
