Understanding Spring's IoC Container: BeanFactory, ListableBeanFactory, HierarchicalBeanFactory, and AutowireCapableBeanFactory
This article explains the core Spring IoC concepts by analyzing the top‑level BeanFactory interface and its three important sub‑interfaces—HierarchicalBeanFactory, ListableBeanFactory, and AutowireCapableBeanFactory—illustrating their responsibilities, inheritance relationships, and practical usage with code examples.