What in the world are Spring beans?

Question

I am yet to find a high-level definition of Spring beans that I can understand. I see them referenced often in Grails documentation and books, but I think that understanding

Answer 1

• Spring beans are just object instances that are managed by the Spring IOC container.

• Spring IOC container carry the Bag of Bean.Bean creation,maintain and deletion are the responsibilities of Spring Container.

• We can put the bean in to Spring by Wiring and Auto Wiring.

• Wiring mean we manually configure it into the XML file.

• Auto Wiring mean we put the annotations in the Java file then Spring automatically scan the root-context where java configuration file, make it and put into the bag of Spring.