Spring provides us with a container, and our application objects live in this Spring container. As shown in the following diagram, this container is responsible for creating and managing the objects:
In a Spring application, our application objects live in this Spring container
The Spring Container also wires the many Object together according to its configuration. It is configured with some initialized parameters, and manages their complete life cycle from start to finish.
Basically, there are two distinct types of Spring container:
- Bean factory
- Application contexts