Question

I read the following issue on jira:

https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-2740

Basically, I want my spring MVC application to load some data from a database on initialization. As the init method / @Preconstruct is invoked before any AOP proxying is done there is no transaction advice applied.

Is there an elegant pattern to follow so once proxying has taken place I can configure something similar to the init method?

Answer 1

If you only need the autowired resource for this single initialization point you can simply @Autowire a method with the resource needed.

@Autowired
public void initialized(Database database){
     resources =  resource.loadDatabaseRecources();
}

This will autowire the Database instance to this method after Database is finishing initializing.