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what's in a bean? in this installment, we'll find out!

What's a Spring Bean

Hi, green beans!

Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips!

why do we call them "beans"? (or, the enduring legacy of Visual Basic!)

0. BeanDefinitions, the primordial soup of a Spring application, and BeanDefinitionPostProcessors
1. Just the beans, please
2. XML namespaces: property-placeholders
3. FactoryBean<T>s
4. component scanning and stereotype annotations
5. Java configuration and profiles
6. functional configuration
7. auto configuration