I have multiple context files. Requirement is: one particular Bean (which makes some configuration changes) to be initialized first among rest of beans.
Is there a way to get this bean loaded first?
One option is using depends-on
attribute. But that would require updating all the rest of the beans, thus seems not to be best solution.
Do we have better options?
IMHO you should wait until they fix https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-3948
One probable way is to use depends-on attribute. But again, I don't want to add this attribute in all the rest of the beans (this is probably the last resort for me).
Actually, you don't need to use depends-on on EACH AND EVERY BEAN in each and every applicationContext.xml.
Use <import />
in all "lower-lvel" applicationContext.xml to import the topmost applicationContext.xml.
And use depends-on attribute in each and ever bean definition only in topmost applicationContext.xml, except the <bean />
that you wanna load first.