加载BeanFactory

protected void prepareRefresh() {
		this.startupDate = System.currentTimeMillis();

		synchronized (this.activeMonitor) {
			this.active = true;
		}

		if (logger.isInfoEnabled()) {
			logger.info("Refreshing " + this);
		}

		// Initialize any placeholder property sources in the context environment
		initPropertySources();

		// Validate that all properties marked as required are resolvable
		// see ConfigurablePropertyResolver#setRequiredProperties
		getEnvironment().validateRequiredProperties();
	}

prepareRefresh函数主要是做些准备工作，例如对系统属性即环境变量的初始化及验证。

加载BeanFactory

obtainFreshBeanFactory方法实现了BeanFactory，也就是经过了这个函数后ApplicatonContext就已经拥有了BeanFactory的全部功能。

protected ConfigurableListableBeanFactory obtainFreshBeanFactory() {
		refreshBeanFactory();
		ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory = getBeanFactory();
		if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
			logger.debug("Bean factory for " + getDisplayName() + ": " + beanFactory);
		}
		return beanFactory;
	}

方法中将核心实现委托给了refreshBeanFactory：

protected final void refreshBeanFactory() throws BeansException {
		if (hasBeanFactory()) {
			destroyBeans();
			closeBeanFactory();
		}
		try {
			DefaultListableBeanFactory beanFactory = createBeanFactory();
			beanFactory.setSerializationId(getId());
			customizeBeanFactory(beanFactory);
			loadBeanDefinitions(beanFactory);
			synchronized (this.beanFactoryMonitor) {
				this.beanFactory = beanFactory;
			}
		}
		catch (IOException ex) {
			throw new ApplicationContextException("I/O error parsing bean definition source for " + getDisplayName(), ex);
		}
	}

（1）创建DefaultListableBeanFactory。

（2）指定序列化ID。

（3）定制BeanFactory。

（4）加载BeanDefinition。

（5）使用全局变量记录BeanFactory。

定制BeanFactory

在基本容器的基础上，增加了是否允许覆盖是否允许扩展的设置，并提供了注解@Qualifier和@Autowired的支持。

protected void customizeBeanFactory(DefaultListableBeanFactory beanFactory) {
		if (this.allowBeanDefinitionOverriding != null) {
			beanFactory.setAllowBeanDefinitionOverriding(this.allowBeanDefinitionOverriding);
		}
		if (this.allowCircularReferences != null) {
			beanFactory.setAllowCircularReferences(this.allowCircularReferences);
		}
		beanFactory.setAutowireCandidateResolver(new QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver());
	}

加载BeanDefinition

protected void loadBeanDefinitions(DefaultListableBeanFactory beanFactory) throws BeansException, IOException {
		// Create a new XmlBeanDefinitionReader for the given BeanFactory.
		XmlBeanDefinitionReader beanDefinitionReader = new XmlBeanDefinitionReader(beanFactory);

		// Configure the bean definition reader with this context's
		// resource loading environment.
		beanDefinitionReader.setEnvironment(this.getEnvironment());
		beanDefinitionReader.setResourceLoader(this);
		beanDefinitionReader.setEntityResolver(new ResourceEntityResolver(this));

		// Allow a subclass to provide custom initialization of the reader,
		// then proceed with actually loading the bean definitions.
		initBeanDefinitionReader(beanDefinitionReader);
		loadBeanDefinitions(beanDefinitionReader);
	}

在初始化了DefaultListableBeanFactory和XmlBeanDefinitionReader后就可以进行配置文件的读取了。

protected void loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader reader) throws BeansException, IOException {
		Resource[] configResources = getConfigResources();
		if (configResources != null) {
			reader.loadBeanDefinitions(configResources);
		}
		String[] configLocations = getConfigLocations();
		if (configLocations != null) {
			reader.loadBeanDefinitions(configLocations);
		}
	}