//中心接口，给应用提供配置信息
public interface ApplicationContext extends EnvironmentCapable, ListableBeanFactory, HierarchicalBeanFactory,
		MessageSource, ApplicationEventPublisher, ResourcePatternResolver {

	/**
	 * Return the unique id of this application context.
	 * @return the unique id of the context, or {@code null} if none
	 */
	//应用上下文唯一的id
	String getId();

	/**
	 * Return a name for the deployed application that this context belongs to.
	 * @return a name for the deployed application, or the empty String by default
	 */
	//获得部署应用的name
	String getApplicationName();

	/**
	 * Return a friendly name for this context.
	 * @return a display name for this context (never {@code null})
	 */
	//这个上下文的外在name
	String getDisplayName();

	/**
	 * Return the timestamp when this context was first loaded.
	 * @return the timestamp (ms) when this context was first loaded
	 */
	//第一次被加载的时间戳
	long getStartupDate();

	/**
	 * Return the parent context, or {@code null} if there is no parent
	 * and this is the root of the context hierarchy.
	 * @return the parent context, or {@code null} if there is no parent
	 */
	//获得父亲上下文，没有父亲返回null
	ApplicationContext getParent();

	/**
	 * Expose AutowireCapableBeanFactory functionality for this context.
	 * <p>This is not typically used by application code, except for the purpose of
	 * initializing bean instances that live outside of the application context,
	 * applying the Spring bean lifecycle (fully or partly) to them.
	 * <p>Alternatively, the internal BeanFactory exposed by the
	 * {@link ConfigurableApplicationContext} interface offers access to the
	 * {@link AutowireCapableBeanFactory} interface too. The present method mainly
	 * serves as a convenient, specific facility on the ApplicationContext interface.
	 * <p><b>NOTE: As of 4.2, this method will consistently throw IllegalStateException
	 * after the application context has been closed.</b> In current Spring Framework
	 * versions, only refreshable application contexts behave that way; as of 4.2,
	 * all application context implementations will be required to comply.
	 * @return the AutowireCapableBeanFactory for this context
	 * @throws IllegalStateException if the context does not support the
	 * {@link AutowireCapableBeanFactory} interface, or does not hold an
	 * autowire-capable bean factory yet (e.g. if {@code refresh()} has
	 * never been called), or if the context has been closed already
	 * @see ConfigurableApplicationContext#refresh()
	 * @see ConfigurableApplicationContext#getBeanFactory()
	 */
	AutowireCapableBeanFactory getAutowireCapableBeanFactory() throws IllegalStateException;

}