How do I create default init-method and destroy method in Spring?

When many beans in a context definition will have the same initialization and destroy method name, you can define a default-init-method and default-destroy-method in the attributes of the beans element.

This way you don’t have to define individual init-method and destroy-method for each of your beans. When the beans do not supply the method that match the name of defined default-init-method or default-destroy-method nothing will happen to those beans.

Let’s see an example code below. Firs here is our simple bean, the AutoEngine bean.

package org.kodejava.spring.core;

public class AutoEngine {
    public void initialize() {
        System.out.println("AutoEngine.initialize");
    }

    public void destroy() {
        System.out.println("AutoEngine.destroy");
    }
}

And then we define our Spring configuration file. You can see that there are default-init-method and default-destroy-method in the attribute of the beans element.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd"
       default-init-method="initialize" default-destroy-method="destroy">

    <bean id="engine" class="org.kodejava.spring.core.AutoEngine" />

</beans>

And finally a small program to run our demo.

package org.kodejava.spring.core;

import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class DefaultInitDestroyDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ConfigurableApplicationContext context =
                new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("default-init-destroy.xml");

        AutoEngine engine = (AutoEngine) context.getBean("engine");

        // context.close will remove the bean from the container.
        // This will call our bean destroy method.
        context.close();
    }
}

When you run this example you’ll get the following output printed on your screen:

AutoEngine.initialize
AutoEngine.destroy

Maven Dependencies

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
        <version>5.3.23</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
        <version>5.3.23</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
        <version>5.3.23</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

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Wayan

Founder at Kode Java

A programmer, runner and recreational diver, lives on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Programming in Java, Spring Framework, Hibernate / JPA, MySQL. To support me working on this project, buy me a cup of coffee, every little bit helps. Thank you.

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