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== Introduction to the Spring IoC Container and Beans
This chapter covers the Spring Framework implementation of the Inversion of Control
(IoC) principle. (See <<overview.adoc#background-ioc,Inversion of Control>>.) IoC
(IoC) principle. IoC
is also known as dependency injection (DI). It is a process whereby objects define
their dependencies (that is, the other objects they work with) only through constructor
arguments, arguments to a factory method, or properties that are set on the object