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How does Spring Boot handle circular dependency resolution internally?

Updated May 17, 2026

Short answer

Spring resolves circular dependencies using early references for singleton beans.

Deep explanation

Spring allows circular dependencies only in setter or field injection using three-level cache: singletonObjects, earlySingletonObjects, and singletonFactories. Constructor injection cycles are not supported because objects cannot be partially constructed.

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