Execute method on startup in Spring

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If by “application startup” you mean “application context startup”, then yes, there are many ways to do this, the easiest (for singletons beans, anyway) being to annotate your method with @PostConstruct. Take a look at the link to see the other options, but in summary they are:

  • Methods annotated with @PostConstruct
  • afterPropertiesSet() as defined by the InitializingBean callback interface
  • A custom configured init() method

Technically, these are hooks into the bean lifecycle, rather than the context lifecycle, but in 99% of cases, the two are equivalent.

If you need to hook specifically into the context startup/shutdown, then you can implement the Lifecycle interface instead, but that’s probably unnecessary.

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