Instantiate beans in order in Spring?

Question

Is it possible to set order of instantiation in Spring?

I don\'t want to use @DependsOn and I don\'t want to use Ordered interface. I just

Answer 1

You can impose ordering in your example by first eliminating static on the classes MyBean1 and MyBean2, which when using Spring is not necessary in almost every case, as the default for Spring is to instantiate a single instance of each bean (similar to a Singleton).

The trick is to declare MyBean1 and MyBean2 as @Bean and to enforce the order, you create an implicit dependency from bean1 to bean2 by calling bean2's bean initialization method from within bean1's initialization method.

For example:

import org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.core.annotation.Order;

/**
 * Order does not work here
 */
public class OrderingOfInstantiation {

   interface MyBean{
       default String printSimpleName(){
           System.out.println(getClass().getSimpleName());
       }
   }

   public class MyBean1 implments MyBean{ 
       public MyBean1(){ pintSimpleName(); }
   }

   public class MyBean2 implments MyBean{ 
       public MyBean2(){ pintSimpleName(); }
   }

   public class MyBean3 implments MyBean{ 
       public MyBean3(){ pintSimpleName(); }
   }

   public class MyBean4 implments MyBean{ 
       public MyBean4(){ pintSimpleName(); }
   }

   public class MyBean5 implments MyBean{ 
       public MyBean5(){ pintSimpleName(); }
   }

   @Configuration
   public class Config {

      @Bean
      MyBean1 bean1() {
         //This will cause a a dependency on bean2
         //forcing it to be created before bean1
         bean2();

         return addToAllBeans(new MyBean1());
      }

      @Bean
      MyBean2 bean2() {
         //This will cause a a dependency on bean3
         //forcing it to be created before bean2
         bean3();

         //Note: This is added just to explain another point
         //Calling the bean3() method a second time will not create
         //Another instance of MyBean3. Spring only creates 1 by default
         //And will instead look up the existing bean2 and return that.
         bean3();

         return addToAllBeans(new MyBean2());
      }

      @Bean
      MyBean3 bean3(){ return addToAllBeans(new MyBean3()); }

      @Bean
      MyBean4 bean4(){ return addToAllBeans(new MyBean4()); }


      @Bean
      MyBean5 bean5(){ return addToAllBeans(new MyBean5()); }


      /** If you want each bean to add itself to the allBeans list **/
      @Bean
      List allBeans(){
          return new ArrayList();
      }

      private  T addToAllBeans(T aBean){
          allBeans().add(aBean);
          return aBean;
      }
   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(Config.class);
   }
}