Daniel Kulp wrote:
Can you just use the lazy-init="true" stuff built into spring?
<bean id="accountService"
lazy-init="true"
class="my.web.service.AccountService"
factory-bean="accountProxyFactory" factory-method="create"/>
That would work if the application code gets the proxy from the spring
context by name using getBean(), but if the proxy is injected into
another bean by spring then it won't make much difference - it'll still
have to be initialized before it can be injected. But this might help:
http://johnheintz.blogspot.com/2007/11/using-lazy-proxy-to-avoid-spring.html
The LazyProxyFactoryBean shown in this post basically allows you to wrap
up another Spring bean with a proxy that shows the same interface, but
delays asking for the "real" bean until the first method call. Using
this in combination with the lazy-init=true trick above should do what
you're after.
Ian
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