Configuring beans

A bean is an object that can be instantiated and assembled by the Spring IoC. These beans are created by configuring Spring's metadata. Here's a set of properties that represent each bean definition:

• Class
• Name
• Scope
• Constructor-arg

Let's learn about the configured metadata's uses in the following sections.

Spring configuration metadata

The three major functions that provide configuration metadata with the Spring container are as follows:

• XML-based configuration
• Kotlin/Java-annotation-based configuration
• Kotlin/Java-code-based configuration

XML-based configuration

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