when is a spring bean instantiated

Question

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


        

Answer 1

By default, Spring ApplicationContext eagerly creates and initializes all ‘singleton scoped‘ beans during application startup itself. ApplicationContext makes the bean available in BeanFactory. getBean() returns the instance of the bean.