🍃🎓 SPRING CERTIFICATION QUESTION: What is meant by 'application-context'? #IoC

Answer:

By 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭 is usually meant an 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 IoC container.

It's called an 'advanced' because of its superset capabilities in comparison to a simple bean factory.

The term 'application-context' is directly related to

𝐨𝐫𝐠.𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤.𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭.𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭 interface which is central in Spring framework.

As related JavaDoc says, 𝐨𝐫𝐠.𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤.𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭.𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭 offers the following functionality:

1. Bean factory

2. Resource loading

3. Events publishing to registered listeners

4. Internationalization

5. Composition of inheritance chains with other contexts

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The Spring ApplicationContext 👉 https://www.baeldung.com/spring-application-context