Comprehensive Overview of Spring and Spring Boot Extension Points and Bean Lifecycle
This article provides a detailed walkthrough of Spring and Spring Boot's core concepts, explains the bean container refresh process, and enumerates all major extension interfaces—including ApplicationContextInitializer, BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessor, BeanFactoryPostProcessor, InstantiationAwareBeanPostProcessor, SmartInstantiationAwareBeanPostProcessor, various *Aware interfaces, @PostConstruct, InitializingBean, FactoryBean, SmartInitializingSingleton, CommandLineRunner, DisposableBean, and ApplicationListener—accompanied by code samples and usage scenarios.