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Core containers

This section consists of Core, Beans, Context, and Expression Language modules.

The Core module is the center of the Spring architecture. This provides the implementation for features such as Inversion of Control (IoC) and  Dependency Injection (DI). IoC is one of the center containers of the Spring core. DI is another known name of IoC. This container is responsible for creating forms of objects and controls the complete life cycle. During this life cycle, the system creates a dependency and the container injects those dependencies while it creates the bean. This inverse process of DI is basically called IoC.

org.springframework.beans and org.springframework.context are the two containers of Spring Framework's IoC. IoC has ...