when is a spring bean instantiated

Question

ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
    \"com/springinaction/springidol/spring-idol.xml\");
Performer performer = (Performer) ctx.getBean(\"         


        

Answer 1

According to Spring documentation,

The default behavior for ApplicationContext implementations is to eagerly pre-instantiate all singleton beans at startup.

Also, you can set them to load lazily.