Spring in Action

Question 1

What is Spring?

Answer 1

Application Infrastructure that follows Dependency Injection Pattern to wire dependencies together. It offers a Spring Context Container that will handle these Spring beans vs allowing components from managing the lifecycle of their dependent components.

Question 2

What is @Configuration?

Answer 2

Configuration class that will provide beans to the Spring App

Question 3

XML Configuration Files vs Java Configuration file?

Answer 3

Greater type safety and improved refactorability with Java.

Question 4

What is Spring Autoconfiguration?

Answer 4

Spring makes reasonable guesses at what components need to be configured and wired together, based on entries in the class path, environment variable, and other factors