Spring Professional Certificate Study Guide Section 1-1, Question 1-15

1.1 Container, Dependency and IOC

In this article, I'm going to answer the first 15 questions of Section 1.1 from the Professinal VMware Spring Certificate study guide. Those questions are:

1. What is dependency injection and what are the advantages of using it? 
2. What is an interface and what are the advantages of making use of them in Java? 
3. What is an ApplicationContext?
4. How are you going to create a new instance of an ApplicationContext?
5. Can you describe the lifecycle of a Spring Bean in an ApplicationContext?
6. How are you going to create an ApplicationContext in an integration test?
7. What is the preferred way to close an application context? Does Spring Boot do this for you?
8. Are beans lazily or eagerly instantiated by default? How do you alter this behavior?
9. What is a property source? How would you use @PropertySource?
10. What is a BeanFactoryPostProcessor and what is it used for? When is it invoked?