What is a bean in the context of Spring?

A managed dependency defined by configuration metadata that can be injected into downstream classes

A binary-encoded, agnostic, named entity that is translatable between different data formats

A payload that is transferable between different services in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

A discrete piece of data that is encoded in a binary format for persisting to a file system

Answer:
A managed dependency defined by configuration metadata that can be injected into downstream classes

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