Selgitage, mis on konteiner Spring Framework raames ja kuidas see haldab rakenduse komponente.

In Spring Framework, the container is an object that manages the lifecycle and configuration of application components, called beans. The container is responsible for creating, linking, and managing dependencies between these beans, using the Inversion of Control (IoC) concept.

The main container in Spring is ApplicationContext. It loads the configuration (for example, from XML, annotations, or Java configuration), creates bean objects, injects dependencies, and provides them to the application on demand.

Example:

@Component
public class Service {
    // ...
}

@Component
public class Client {
    private final Service service;

    @Autowired
    public Client(Service service) {
        this.service = service;
    }
}

Here, the Spring container will create Service and Client objects and automatically inject Service into Client via the constructor.