spring singleton bean construction

Question

I'm new on spring and I want a spring singleton bean to be created when the web application starts, not when it is referenced. Is there a way to achive this? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

This is the default behaviour. Spring beans are non-lazy singletons by default.

Answer 2

<bean id="Example" class="com.domain.Example" singleton="true" lazy-init="false" />

or

<bean id="Example" class="com.domain.Example" />

lazy-init and singleton are set to this value by default.