Load 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();
	}

The prepareRefresh function is mainly to do some preparatory work, such as initialization and verification of system properties, that is, environment variables.

Load BeanFactory

The obtainFreshBeanFactory method implements the BeanFactory, that is, the ApplicatonContext already has all the functions of the BeanFactory after this function.

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

The method delegates the core implementation to 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) Create DefaultListableBeanFactory.

(2) Specify the serialization ID.

(3) Customize BeanFactory.

(4) Load BeanDefinition.

(5) Record BeanFactory using global variables.

Custom BeanFactory

On the basis of the basic container, the setting of whether to allow to override whether to allow extensions is added, and the support of annotations @Qualifier and @Autowired is provided.

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());
	}

Load 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);
	}

After initializing DefaultListableBeanFactory and XmlBeanDefinitionReader, the configuration file can be read.

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);
		}
	}