What are the main characteristics of meta-information about a bean in its Spring definition?

Meta-information about a bean in Spring describes how the container should create, configure, and manage the lifecycle of this bean. The main characteristics of meta-information include:

• Bean class — the class whose instance will be created.
• Bean identifier (name) — a unique name for referencing the bean in the container.
• Scope — for example, singleton (one instance per container), prototype (a new instance each request), request, session, etc.
• Constructor or initialization methods — ways to create and configure the bean.
• Dependencies (dependency injection) — other beans or values to be injected.
• Destroy methods — actions upon bean destruction.

This information is usually specified in XML configuration, annotations (@Component, @Scope, @Autowired, etc.), or Java configuration.

Example annotation:

@Component("myBean")
@Scope("prototype")
public class MyBean {
    @Autowired
    private AnotherBean dependency;
    
    @PostConstruct
    public void init() {
        // initialization
    }

    @PreDestroy
    public void cleanup() {
        // cleanup
    }
}