Spring IoC container
In Spring, the org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory interface defines the basic IoC container, while the org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext interface represents an advanced IoC container. ApplicationContext is a super set of BeanFactory. It provides some additional enterprise-level functionalities on top of basic IoC features by BeanFactory.
To cater for different types of applications, Spring provides various implementations of ApplicationContext out of the box. For standalone applications, you can use the FileSystemXmlApplicationContext or ClassPathXmlApplicationContext class. They are both implementations of ApplicationConext.
While working with Spring, you need to pass one XML file as an entry ...
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