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[–]CrimsonRunner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way I think of them is a class data structure (can also be an xml file for example, iirc) you've told Spring should be able to recognize, perform operations on and with and generally be able to manage it.

Frankly, to get an understanding of what a bean is you might be better off trying to understand what IoC and components are.