Defining a Bean with @Bean

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Defining a Bean with @Bean

In Spring, a 'Bean' is an object managed by the Spring IoC container. By using @Configuration and @Bean, you manually define how a specific object should be created and configured.

snippet.java
java
@Configuration
public class AppConfig {
    @Bean
    public MyService myService() {
        return new MyService();
    }
}

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@Configuration

Marks the class as a source of bean definitions for the application context.

@Bean

Indicates that this method produces a bean to be managed by the Spring container.

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