Spring @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotation Example

If You want to perform specific action or handling upon bean Initialization and Bean destruction then Implementing InitializingBean and Disposable Bean or init-method and destroy-method is for You !!

But there is another annotation approach available. You need to annotate methods with @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotation in you bean class and define in Spring Bean configuration file.

You can either add CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor (org.springframework.context.annotation.CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor) class in Spring bean xml or use context:annotation-config in spring bean configuration file


Spring @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotation Example :

package com.anuj.spring.core.postConstructAndPreDestroy;
import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
/**
 *
 * @author Anuj Patel
 */
public class Customer{
    
    String customerId;

    public String getCustomerId() {
        return customerId;
    }

    public void setCustomerId(String customerId) {
        this.customerId = customerId;
    }

    @PostConstruct
    public void init() throws Exception {
     System.out.println("Init method called. Values after properties set : "+ customerId);
    }

    @PreDestroy
    public void clean() throws Exception {
        System.out.println("clean called !!");
    }

 @Override
 public String toString() {
  return "Customer [customerId=" + customerId + "]";
 }
}

Spring PostConstructAndPreDestroy :

package com.anuj.spring.core.postConstructAndPreDestroy;
import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

/**
 *
 * @author Anuj Patel
 */
public class PostConstructAndPreDestroy {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ConfigurableApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("spring_core_postConstructAndPreDestroy.xml");
        Customer customer = (Customer) context.getBean("customerBean");
        System.out.println(customer);
        
        context.close();
    }
}

Spring Bean Configuration XML :

Note : Please update since minor issue in displaying xml here.

Output :
Init method called. Values after properties set : 1
Customer [customerId=1]
clean called !!

You may want to read :
Difference between context:component-scan and context:annotation-config in Spring