For a Java class to be usable as a Java bean, its setter- and getter-method names need to be as per the JavaBean guidelines (also called design patterns) for properties. If such a Java class is instantiable & manageable by the Spring IoC container, it is a Spring bean. To achieve this, the programmer wires the class as a bean definition of a suitable scope by using XML config files or annotations or a mix of both. The programmer can create new Spring beans out of existing Spring beans by wiring further by passing the latter to constructor-arguments of the former either as string-names as <idref> elements or by dependency injection (it can be recursive).

这个答案可以与我的这个SO答案一起阅读，以获得更多的背景信息。

Bean是一个POJO(普通旧Java对象)，由spring容器管理。

默认情况下，Spring容器只创建bean的一个实例。
此bean被缓存在内存中，因此对该bean的所有请求将返回对同一bean的共享引用。

@Bean注释返回一个对象，spring在应用程序上下文中将该对象注册为bean。
方法内部的逻辑负责创建实例。

什么时候使用@Bean注释?

当没有自动配置选项时。 例如，当我们想从第三方库连接组件时，因为源代码不可用，所以我们不能用@Component注释类。

实时场景可能是某人想要连接到Amazon S3桶。 因为源不可用，所以他必须创建一个@bean。

@Bean
public AmazonS3 awsS3Client() {
    BasicAWSCredentials awsCreds = new BasicAWSCredentials(awsKeyId, accessKey);
    return AmazonS3ClientBuilder.standard().withRegion(Regions.fromName(region))
            .withCredentials(new AWSStaticCredentialsProvider(awsCreds)).build();
}

源代码以上的代码-> https://www.devglan.com/spring-mvc/aws-s3-java

因为我上面提到了@Component Annotation。

@Component表示带注释的类是一个“组件”。在使用基于注释的配置和类路径扫描时，这些类被认为是自动检测的候选类。

组件注释将类注册为单个bean。

你只理解了一部分。您必须根据需要定制bean，并通知Spring容器在需要时管理它，方法是使用Martin Fowler创造的通常称为IoC(控制反转)的方法，也称为依赖注入(DI)。

您以某种方式连接bean，这样您就不必关心实例化或计算bean上的任何依赖项。这就是众所周知的好莱坞原则。

谷歌是最好的工具，除了在这个问题中你会被淹没的链接之外，还可以探索更多关于这个问题的内容。：）

For Spring, all objects are beans! The fundamental step in the Spring Framework is to define your objects as beans. Beans are nothing but object instances that would be created by the spring framework by looking at their class definitions. These definitions basically form the configuration metadata. The framework then creates a plan for which objects need to be instantiated, which dependencies need to be set and injected, the scope of the newly created instance, etc., based on this configuration metadata. The metadata can be supplied in a simple XML file, just like in the first chapter. Alternatively, one could provide the metadata as Annotation or Java Configuration.

书:Just Spring

Spring的XML配置由bean组成，而bean基本上是类。它们只是我们在ApplicationContext中使用的pojo。定义bean可以看作是替换关键字new。所以无论你在应用程序中使用关键字new，比如:

MyRepository myRepository =new MyRepository ();

当你使用关键字new时你可以删除配置并将其放入XML文件中。 所以我们将像这样编码:

<bean name="myRepository " 
      class="com.demo.repository.MyRepository " />

现在我们可以简单地使用Setter注入/构造函数注入。我正在使用Setter注入。

public class MyServiceImpl implements MyService {
    private MyRepository myRepository;
    public void setMyRepository(MyRepository myRepository)
        {
    this.myRepository = myRepository ;
        }
public List<Customer> findAll() {
        return myRepository.findAll();
    }
}

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.