Make a bean unautowireable or that disposes of it self?

Question

We need a spring bean that will either

Prevent the framework from @Autowired -ing it.

or

Once it does its work it destroys itself?

The bean roughly looks like this:

public final class Registrar implements ApplicationListener<SOFrameworkInitializedEvent>

So after it receives this 1 time event do the work and go away. We are using Spring 3.0.7.

Go away? Is your concern memory? Or that you don't want rogue client code calling it? — Καrτhικ, Feb 01 '13 at 19:34
Then see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6855811/how-can-i-remove-a-singleton-spring-bean-from-applicationcontext — Καrτhικ, Feb 01 '13 at 21:12

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 01 '13 at 23:51

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Use the autowire-candidate property in the bean definition XML, e.g.:

  <bean id="MyBean" class="com.acme.SimpleTestServiceImpl" autowire-candidate="false"/>

answered Feb 01 '13 at 23:51

Grzegorz Oledzki

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