Better application events in Spring Framework 4.2
Application events are available since the very beginning of the Spring framework as a mean for loosely coupled components to exchange information. One of the most well known usage of application events is the following:
@Component
public class MyListener
implements ApplicationListener<ContextRefreshedEvent> {
public void onApplicationEvent(ContextRefreshedEvent event) {
...
}
}
This allows MyListener to be notified when the context has refreshed and one can use that to run arbitrary code when the application context has fully started.
In Spring Framework…
