why don't spring getter methods follow javabean convention?

Question

I walked across many Spring tutorials explaining @Configuration and @Bean annotations, and always the @Bean annotation is put above a method that is returning some Spring bean but never follows the java bean getter standard. for example :

@Bean
public LocalSessionFactoryBean sessionFactory() { ... }

and not

getSessionFactory()

Can anyone explain why is this standard abandoned here?

Answer 1

This is because by default bean name will be the same as the method name. Following the java bean getter standard you will end up with bean with name "getSessionFactory".