Now a days the question "difference between BeanFactory and ApplicationContext in Spring framework? " has became most popular in most of the industry. mostly this question is asked to more than 2 years of experience people in Spring Framework .Today we are going to discuss this topic and going to understand the differences between BeanFactory and ApplicationContext .Here i have given some differences in tabular form so to make it clear.
BeanFactory
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ApplicationContext
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BaenFactory is also known as Basic IoC Container.
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ApplicationContext is also known as
Advanced IoC Conatiner.
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Beanfactory uses the lazy Initialization means it will create
Singlton Bean based on the demand.
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ApplicationContext uses eager
initialization means it will create all singleton Beans at the time of its
own initialization.
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BeanFactory creates and manages resources by explicitely.
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ApplicationContext creates and manages resources by its own.
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Internationalization is not supported by BeanFactory.
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Internationalization
is supported by ApplicationContext.
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Annotation based dependency is not supported by BeanFactory.
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ApplicationContext
supports Annotation by using @PreDestroy @AutoWired.
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One of the most popular implementation of BeanFactory interface is
XmlBeanFactory.
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One of
the most popular implementation of ApplicationContext Interface is ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.
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If you are using auto wiring and using BeanFactory then you need
to register AutoWiredBeanPostProcessor.
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If you
are using ApplicationContext you can configure in Xml.
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