Howto: auto-load things after context initialized

[rebornspirit]

Want I want to do is load for example a JCR repository automatically after the application context has been initialized. What is the best way to achive this?

- Create 1 listerener / thing you want to load (extending from contextloaderlistener i.e.)

What is the best practise for auto loading things after the app context has been loaded?

[Costin Leau]

Create a bean that implements InitializingBean interface and that will create your custom objects in the afterPropertiesSet - or just use the init-method attribute.
Note that Spring Modules contains extensive JCR support including jackrabbit and jeceira. What JCR implementation are you using?

[rebornspirit]

For the moment I'm using the InitializingBean / afterpropertiesset to achive the auto-loading. But it just feels strange to use this interface for these purposes. I guess I would be cleaner to start the loading when the full Spring container ha been loaded?

I'm using JackRabbit ... so I'll have a look at the spring modules ... thx for mentioning that