Difference Bean Factory and Application Context

             

Application   Context	Bean Factory
Application Context  supports  annotation based  configuration	Bean factory does not supports annotation based configuration
Application context can publish events to the bean which are registered as listeners	Listener are not supported by the Bean Factory
Supports  internationalization message	Does not supports internationalization
By default it supports aggressive loading	By default it supports lazy loading

   


FileSystemXmlApplicationContext Beans loaded through the full path.

ClassPathXmlApplicationContext Beans loaded through the CLASSPATH

XMLWebApplicationContext and AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext beans loaded through the web application context.

AnnotationConfigApplicationContext Loading Spring beans from Annotation based configuration.