Spring学习-04:BeanFactory和ApplicationContext

在Spring学习-03中，介绍了ApplicationContext的两个子类，其中类之间的继承关系如下图所示：

ApplicationContext间接的继承了BeanFactory类。

在myeclipse中追踪源代码：

public interface ApplicationContext extends EnvironmentCapable, ListableBeanFactory, HierarchicalBeanFactory,
		MessageSource, ApplicationEventPublisher, ResourcePatternResolver {

	/**
	 * Return the unique id of this application context.
	 * @return the unique id of the context, or <code>null</code> if none
	 */
	String getId();

	/**
	 * Return a name for the deployed application that this context belongs to.
	 * @return a name for the deployed application, or the empty String by default
	 */
	String getApplicationName();

	/**
	 * Return a friendly name for this context.
	 * @return a display name for this context (never <code>null</code>)
	*/
	String getDisplayName();

	/**
	 * Return the timestamp when this context was first loaded.
	 * @return the timestamp (ms) when this context was first loaded
	 */
	long getStartupDate();

	/**
	 * Return the parent context, or <code>null</code> if there is no parent
	 * and this is the root of the context hierarchy.
	 * @return the parent context, or <code>null</code> if there is no parent
	 */
	ApplicationContext getParent();

	/**
	 * Expose AutowireCapableBeanFactory functionality for this context.
	 * <p>This is not typically used by application code, except for the purpose
	 * of initializing bean instances that live outside the application context,
	 * applying the Spring bean lifecycle (fully or partly) to them.
	 * <p>Alternatively, the internal BeanFactory exposed by the
	 * {@link ConfigurableApplicationContext} interface offers access to the
	 * AutowireCapableBeanFactory interface too. The present method mainly
	 * serves as convenient, specific facility on the ApplicationContext
	 * interface itself.
	 * @return the AutowireCapableBeanFactory for this context
	 * @throws IllegalStateException if the context does not support
	 * the AutowireCapableBeanFactory interface or does not hold an autowire-capable
	 * bean factory yet (usually if <code>refresh()</code> has never been called)
	 * @see ConfigurableApplicationContext#refresh()
	 * @see ConfigurableApplicationContext#getBeanFactory()
	 */
	AutowireCapableBeanFactory getAutowireCapableBeanFactory() throws IllegalStateException;

}	

其中，继续追踪HierarchicalBeanFactory接口，发现：

public interface HierarchicalBeanFactory extends BeanFactory {
	
	/**
	 * Return the parent bean factory, or <code>null</code> if there is none.
	 */
	BeanFactory getParentBeanFactory();

	/**
	 * Return whether the local bean factory contains a bean of the given name,
	 * ignoring beans defined in ancestor contexts.
	 * <p>This is an alternative to <code>containsBean</code>, ignoring a bean
	 * of the given name from an ancestor bean factory.
	 * @param name the name of the bean to query
	 * @return whether a bean with the given name is defined in the local factory
	 * @see org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory#containsBean
	 */
	boolean containsLocalBean(String name);

}

BeanFactory和ApplicationContext区别：

1、BeanFactory采用了延迟加载，在使用到这个类的时候，也就是调用getBean()方法的时候，才会加载这个类。早期开发的时候，也使用BeanFactory来加载配置文件。

@Test
	public void demo4(){
		BeanFactory beanFactory = new XmlBeanFactory(new ClassPathResource("applicationContext.xml"));
		HelloService helloService=(HelloService)beanFactory.getBean("userService");
		helloService.sayHello();
	}

2、ApplicationContext类加载配置文件的时候，创建所有的类。

并且，ApplicationContext对BeanFactory提供了扩展：国际化处理，事件传递，Bean自动装配，各种不同应用层的Context实现。