Spring - BeanFactory

* The root interface for accessing a Spring bean container.
* This is the basic client view of a bean container;

BeanFactory接口的实现持有beanDefinitions，每个beanDefinition对象有唯一的name。根据beanDefinitaion，BeanFactory可以返回一个Prototype对象，也可能返回一个单例对象，分别对应原型设计模式和单例设计模式。自Spring2.0之后，依赖于具体的applicationContext提供了更多的scopes，如request和session在web环境中。

BeanFactory是一个应用组件的中央注册中心和把配置集中化。
使用依赖注入的方式通过setters和construnctors配置应用对象（push configuratin），要优于使用其他形式的pull configuration的方式，如BeanFactory lookup。

正常情况下，BeanFactory会从配置源中导入Bean定义，例如XML文档。从何处载入bean定义并没有限制，bean定义可存储在LDAP，RDBMS,XML，property file等。建议在Bean之间使用以来注入的机制。

BeanFactory接口的所有操作也会去检查parent BeanFactory如果是一个HierchicalBeanFactory实例的话。如果bean定义没有在当前beanfactory中找到，会去上层beanfactory中查找，子beanfactory中的bean会覆盖父beanfactory中同名的bean。

beanfactory的实现支持标准的bean lifecycle接口，初始化方法的标准顺序为：
BeanNameAware's setBeanName
BeanClassLoaderAware's setBeanClassLoader
BeanFactoryAware's setBeanFactory
EnvironmentAware's setEnvironment
EmbeddedValueResolverAware's setEmbeddedValueResolver
ResourceLoaderAware's setResourceLoader
* (only applicable when running in an application context)
ApplicationEventPublisherAware's setApplicationEventPublisher
* (only applicable when running in an application context)
MessageSourceAware's setMessageSource
* (only applicable when running in an application context)
ApplicationContextAware's setApplicationContext
* (only applicable when running in an application context)
ServletContextAware's setServletContext
* (only applicable when running in a web application context)
postProcessBeforeInitialization methods of BeanPostProcessors
InitializingBean's afterPropertiesSet
a custom init-method definition
postProcessAfterInitialization methods of BeanPostProcessors

当beanfactory shutdown时，下面的lifecycle方法会执行：
postProcessBeforeDestruction methods of DestructionAwareBeanPostProcessors
DestructionAwareBeanPostProcessors
DisposableBean's destroy
a custom destroy-method definition

BeanFactory的类结构如下：

 

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