In Spring, InitializingBean and DisposableBean are two marker interfaces, a useful way for Spring to perform certain actions upon bean initialization and destruction.

• For bean implemented InitializingBean, it will run afterPropertiesSet() after all bean properties have been set.
• For bean implemented DisposableBean, it will run destroy() after Spring container is released the bean.

Example

Here’s an example to show you how to use InitializingBean and DisposableBean. A CustomerService bean to implement both InitializingBean and DisposableBean interface, and has a message property.

package com.mkyong.customer.services;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.DisposableBean;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean;

public class CustomerService implements InitializingBean, DisposableBean

{

	String message;

	public String getMessage() {

	  return message;

	}

	public void setMessage(String message) {

	  this.message = message;

	}

	public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception {

	  System.out.println("Init method after properties are set : " + message);

	}

	public void destroy() throws Exception {

	  System.out.println("Spring Container is destroy! Customer clean up");

	}

}

File : Spring-Customer.xml

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans

	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">

       <bean id="customerService" class="com.mkyong.customer.services.CustomerService">

		<property name="message" value="i'm property message" />

       </bean>

</beans>

Run it

package com.mkyong.common;

import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;

import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

import com.mkyong.customer.services.CustomerService;

public class App

{

    public static void main( String[] args )

    {

    	ConfigurableApplicationContext context =

			new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[] {"Spring-Customer.xml"});

    	CustomerService cust = (CustomerService)context.getBean("customerService");

    	System.out.println(cust);

    	context.close();

    }

}

The ConfigurableApplicationContext.close() will close the application context, releasing all resources and destroying all cached singleton beans. It’s use for destroy() method demo purpose only