I have some classes, with a custom annotation, that shouldn't be instantiated (abstract class, and it's just a subcomponents for a real beans). But on top of this classes, on runtime, on context initialization phase, I want to put extra beans into application context.
So, basically I need to scan classpath, process results, and introduce new beans into curent application context.
It seems that spring-mvc, spring-tasks and spring-integration are doing this (I tried to learn it from sources - no luck)
I found that I can create my own BeanFactoryPostProcessor
, scan classpath and call registerSingleton
for my custom bean. But I'm not sure that it's a good way for introducing new beans (seems that it's used only for postprocess of exising beans only). And I believe there are some Spring internal tools that I may reuse to simplify process.
What is a conventional way to introduce extra beans on Spring context initialization?