Spring: Make sure a particular bean gets initialized first

Question

I have a library doing runtime setup and configuration of log4j (no log4j.properties or log4j.xml). I have defined a bean with class called MyLoggerFactory and I want this t

Answer 1

This is a feature requested but not resolved. You can use depends-on but is too verbose. Follow tis link for more information: https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-3948