Spring Web Application: doing something on startup (initialization)

Question

I want to fill some tables of my DB from a text file on startup, I want my initialization method to be called only when my application do start.

I am using Spring (+MVC) and Hibernate with MySQL.

how can I do?

Answer 1

Use the postconstuct annotation somewhere inside a bean :

@PostConstruct
public void init() {
     //startup logic here
}

Probably makes (desgin) sense to use a configuration bean, but it can be any bean at all.