1.2. Containing your beans

In a Spring-based application, your application objects will live within the Spring container. As illustrated in figure 1.4, the container will create the objects, wire them together, configure them, and manage their complete lifecycle from cradle to grave (or new to finalize(), as the case may be).

Figure 1.4. In a Spring application, objects are created, wired together, and live within the Spring container.