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Answer 1

+1 A:

You cannot do that with annotation, only with XML. The question is, have you set the default to be lazy init:

<beans default-lazy-init="true">
    <!-- no beans will be pre-instantiated... -->
</beans>

The xml for setting a bean to be initialized on context initialization is

<bean id="lazy" class="com.foo.CheapToCreateBean" lazy-init="false"/>

and this is the default behavior.

David Rabinowitz 2009-06-22 16:21:05

that is what I was worried about, I could not see the annotation for it... I wonder why they don't support it?

Michael Wiles 2009-06-23 09:38:08

I don;t know either, but you can add a request here http://jira.springframework.org/browse/SPR

David Rabinowitz 2009-06-23 10:25:25

Answer 2

+2 A:

Beans are not lazy by default. However as far as annotations are concerned it seems like currently annotations do not support it. http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?t=62931

Spring's next version though seem to have something in store http://jira.springframework.org/browse/SJC-263

Priyank 2009-06-26 13:30:28

Answer 3

A:

In spring 3.0 there is an annotation: @Lazy(false)

Bozho 2010-07-11 08:09:14

how to specify a bean as non lazy with annotations