Spring bean initialized on web app starts up

Question

This is probably due to my ignorance of the Spring framewok but i am building a JSF+Facelets+Spring web app, i have a bean that whose init method i want to get called at the time the application is started. My problem is getting the bean initialized. I can reference the bean on a page, and when I go to the page, the bean is initialized, and works as directed; what I would like instead is for the bean to be initialized when the application is started

What is the way to get a Spring bean initialized on web app starts up

Answer 1

Your question is more Spring-targeted than JSF-targeted. I know the solution for JSF, but I don't think that this suits a Spring bean. I googled a second and found this topic at the Spring forum which may be of use for you. It describes/links several different approaches: http://forum.springsource.org/archive/index.php/t-21982.html