Bean initialization not happening

[coila]

I'm trying to write a standalone Spring app, and I just can't get the afterPropertiesSet methods of IntitializingBean beans to get executed. This is what my main app does:

Resource resource = new FileSystemResource("config/spring-config.xml");
XmlBeanFactory bf = new XmlBeanFactory(resource);

won't this by default also initialize beans that implement the required interface? Is there anything else I need to do for that to happen?

Thanks.

[Andreas Senft]

If you would use an ApplicationContext initialization would happen automatically. For BeanFactory classes you need to invoke the "preInstantiateSingletons" method.

Generally using an ApplicationContext is recommended for most cases.

[karldmoore]

Just to confirm Andreas's advice check out the reference manual, it does cover this.
http://www.springframework.org/docs/...nce/beans.html