Spring 5 Design Patterns

Summary

After reading this chapter, you should now have a good idea about the Spring bean life cycle in the container, and the several types of bean scope in a container. You now know that there are three phases of the Spring bean life cycle in the container. The first is the initialization phase. In this phase, Spring loads the bean definitions from XML, Java, or Annotation configurations. After loading these beans, the container constructs each bean, and applies the post-process logic on that bean.

The next is the Use phase, in which the Spring beans are ready to be used, and Spring shows the magic of the proxy pattern.

Finally, the last phase is the destruction phase. In this phase, when the application calls the close() method of Spring's ...