Spring Framework Core Technologies The IoC Container This chapter covers Spring’s Inversion of Control (IoC) container.spring-doc.cn Section Summary Introduction to the Spring IoC Container and Beans Container Overview Bean Overview Dependencies Bean Scopes Customizing the Nature of a Bean Bean Definition Inheritance Container Extension Points Annotation-based Container Configuration Classpath Scanning and Managed Components Using JSR 330 Standard Annotations Java-based Container Configuration Environment Abstraction Registering a LoadTimeWeaver Additional Capabilities of the ApplicationContext The BeanFactory API Spring Framework Core Technologies The IoC Container Core Technologies Introduction to the Spring IoC Container and Beans