Bean life cycle in Spring Bean Factory Container is as follows:
- The spring container finds the bean’s definition from the XML file and instantiates the bean.
- Using the dependency injection, spring populates all of the properties as specified in the bean definition
- If the bean implements the BeanNameAware interface, the factory calls setBeanName() passing the bean’s ID.
- If the bean implements the BeanFactoryAware interface, the factory calls setBeanFactory(), passing an instance of itself.
- If there are any BeanPostProcessors associated with the bean, their post- ProcessBeforeInitialization() methods will be called.
- If an init-method is specified for the bean, it will be called.
- Finally, if there are any BeanPostProcessors associated with the bean, their postProcessAfterInitialization() methods will be called.