Best practise: bootstrap?

[thomasvdv]

Hello,

I would like to call a bootstrap method upon application deploiement. What's the best way to do this?

[Alef Arendsen]

You can add a class implementing BeanFactoryPostProcessor to your context. Implement

postProcessBeanFactory(BeanFactory)

to post process your bean factory. You can for instance retrieve a bean here and do whatever you want with it.

BeanFactoryPostProcessors are automtically loaded after the context is created and any singletons have been initialized.

[Andreas Senft]

If it is a web application you can also use org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListe ner or org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderServl et to perform bootstrap initializations. In that case the initialization code is executed only once.
Using a BeanPostProcessor might be problematic if the configuration is processed more than once (e.g. if you initialize pooled EJBs). In that case your init-code will be executed multiple times.

Regards,
Andreas