在Spring中，那些构成应用程序主干并由Spring IoC管理的对象 容器被称为bean。bean只是一个实例化、组装等的对象 由Spring IoC容器管理;

在Spring中，那些构成应用程序主干并由Spring IoC管理的对象 容器被称为bean。bean只是一个实例化、组装等的对象 由Spring IoC容器管理;

Spring的XML配置由bean组成，而bean基本上是类。它们只是我们在ApplicationContext中使用的pojo。定义bean可以看作是替换关键字new。所以无论你在应用程序中使用关键字new，比如:

MyRepository myRepository =new MyRepository ();

当你使用关键字new时你可以删除配置并将其放入XML文件中。 所以我们将像这样编码:

<bean name="myRepository " 
      class="com.demo.repository.MyRepository " />

现在我们可以简单地使用Setter注入/构造函数注入。我正在使用Setter注入。

public class MyServiceImpl implements MyService {
    private MyRepository myRepository;
    public void setMyRepository(MyRepository myRepository)
        {
    this.myRepository = myRepository ;
        }
public List<Customer> findAll() {
        return myRepository.findAll();
    }
}

For Spring, all objects are beans! The fundamental step in the Spring Framework is to define your objects as beans. Beans are nothing but object instances that would be created by the spring framework by looking at their class definitions. These definitions basically form the configuration metadata. The framework then creates a plan for which objects need to be instantiated, which dependencies need to be set and injected, the scope of the newly created instance, etc., based on this configuration metadata. The metadata can be supplied in a simple XML file, just like in the first chapter. Alternatively, one could provide the metadata as Annotation or Java Configuration.

书:Just Spring

For a Java class to be usable as a Java bean, its setter- and getter-method names need to be as per the JavaBean guidelines (also called design patterns) for properties. If such a Java class is instantiable & manageable by the Spring IoC container, it is a Spring bean. To achieve this, the programmer wires the class as a bean definition of a suitable scope by using XML config files or annotations or a mix of both. The programmer can create new Spring beans out of existing Spring beans by wiring further by passing the latter to constructor-arguments of the former either as string-names as <idref> elements or by dependency injection (it can be recursive).

这个答案可以与我的这个SO答案一起阅读，以获得更多的背景信息。

首先让我们来了解一下春天:

Spring是一个轻量级且灵活的框架。

类比:

Java bean是将许多对象封装到单个对象(bean)中的类。“Bean”这个名称包含了这个标准，它旨在为Java创建可重用的软件组件。

Spring Bean:是一个对象，在Spring容器中创建、管理和销毁。我们可以通过元数据(xml或注释)将对象注入到Spring容器中，这称为控制反转。

类比: 让我们假设农民有一块种种子(或豆子)的农田。 在这里，农民是春天的框架，农田是春天的容器，豆子是春天的豆子，耕种是春天的加工者。

和豆类的生命周期一样，春豆也有自己的生命周期。

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下面是Spring中bean生命周期的序列:

Instantiate: First the spring container finds the bean’s definition from the XML file and instantiates the bean. Populate properties: Using the dependency injection, spring populates all of the properties as specified in the bean definition. Set Bean Name: If the bean implements BeanNameAware interface, spring passes the bean’s id to setBeanName() method. Set Bean factory: If Bean implements BeanFactoryAware interface, spring passes the beanfactory to setBeanFactory() method. Pre-Initialization: Also called post process of bean. If there are any bean BeanPostProcessors associated with the bean, Spring calls postProcesserBeforeInitialization() method. Initialize beans: If the bean implements IntializingBean,its afterPropertySet() method is called. If the bean has init method declaration, the specified initialization method is called. Post-Initialization: – If there are any BeanPostProcessors associated with the bean, their postProcessAfterInitialization() methods will be called. Ready to use: Now the bean is ready to use by the application Destroy: If the bean implements DisposableBean, it will call the destroy() method