The Spring bean life cycle
As long as Spring beans are required by the application, they exist within the container. For a bean to get into a usable state after instantiation, it needs to perform some initialization. Likewise, some clean up may be necessary when the bean is no longer required and is removed from the container.
Spring provides us with callback methods for the life cycle of the bean. You can have a method in your bean that runs when the bean has been created, and you can also have a method in your bean that is run when the bean is about to be destroyed.
Spring's BeanFactory manages the life cycle of beans created through the Spring IoC container. The life cycle of beans consist of callback methods, which can be categorized broadly ...
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