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How does Spring Boot manage bean lifecycle internally?

Updated May 6, 2026

Short answer

Spring manages beans through instantiation, dependency injection, initialization, and destruction phases.

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The container creates bean instances, injects dependencies, runs lifecycle callbacks (@PostConstruct), and manages destruction via @PreDestroy.

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