Spring default behavior for lazy-init

Question

I am beginner to spring, ESP Inversion of control. I was puzzled understanding the difference between the following

Answer 1

lazy-init is the attribute of bean. The values of lazy-init can be true and false. If lazy-init is true, then that bean will be initialized when a request is made to bean. This bean will not be initialized when the spring container is initialized and if lazy-init is false then the bean will be initialized with the spring container initialization.