What is circular dependency in Spring and how is it resolved?

Updated May 17, 2026

Short answer

Circular dependency occurs when two beans depend on each other.

Spring resolves circular dependencies using early bean references and proxies for singleton beans, but fails for constructor injection cycles.

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