Creating lazily initialized Spring beans using annotation based configuration

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I am using Spring's `@Component` annotation to configure many of the beans in my Spring 3.0 application. I would like to know if it's possible to construct some of these beans lazily - especially the `prototype` beans?

Accepted Answer

To declare lazy-initialized bean you can use `@Lazy` annotation.

Note, however, that it doesn't make sense for `prototype` beans - they can't be eagerly initialized, so there is no need to mark them lazy.

Creating lazily initialized Spring beans using annotation based configuration

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