This guide explains Spring and Spring Boot's highly extensible architecture by detailing nine core extension points, their injection timing, practical uses, and best‑practice recommendations, enabling developers to customize the container lifecycle from startup to runtime.
This article explains the five major Spring Boot extension points—ApplicationContextInitializer, ApplicationListener, Runner, BeanFactoryPostProcessor, and BeanPostProcessor—showing how to register custom implementations via SPI, where they are invoked in the startup flow, and providing code examples for each.
This article explains the five major extension points in Spring Boot—ApplicationContextInitializer, ApplicationListener, Runner, BeanFactoryPostProcessor, and BeanPostProcessor—showing how they are discovered via SPI, where they are invoked during the startup lifecycle, and how to implement custom ones with code examples.
This article explains the core extension points of Spring Boot—including ApplicationContextInitializer, ApplicationListener, Runner, BeanFactoryPostProcessor, and BeanPostProcessor—showing how they are discovered via SPI, registered in spring.factories, and invoked during the application startup lifecycle.
