Spring Start Here

2 The Spring context: Defining beans

This chapter covers

• Understanding the need for Spring context
• Adding new object instances to the Spring context

In this chapter, you start learning how to work with a crucial Spring framework element: the context (also known as the application context in a Spring app). Imagine the context as a place in the memory of your app in which we add all the object instances that we want the framework to manage. By default, Spring doesn’t know any of the objects you define in your application. To enable Spring to see your objects, you need to add them to the context. Later in this book we discuss using different capabilities provided by Spring in apps. You’ll learn that plugging in such features is done through ...