What does Yii behavior do?

/**
* Raised right BEFORE the application processes the request.
* @param CEvent $event the event parameter
*/
public function onBeginRequest($event)
{
  $this->raiseEvent('onBeginRequest',$event);
}
/**
* Runs the application.
* This method loads static application components. Derived classes usually overrides this
* method to do more application-specific tasks.
* Remember to call the parent implementation so that static application components are loaded.
*/
public function run()
{
  if($this->hasEventHandler('onBeginRequest'))
    $this->onBeginRequest(new CEvent($this));
  $this->processRequest();
  if($this->hasEventHandler('onEndRequest'))
    $this->onEndRequest(new CEvent($this));
}