[Springframework-developer] AbstractApplicationContext

[JP P. <jp....@ti...>]

Hi,

I have a kind of business objects that initialize them with data from
the Business Messages property file using getMessage().
Searching the MessageSource bean would be a hack.

Currently, AbstractApplicationContext initializes the messageSource at
the very end of the process and notably before
preInstantiateSingletons().
Is a reason for that order or it is only a hazard? I understand that
MessageSource will so not be treated if an Exception is thrown by a
singleton.

That has for consequence that getMessage() is not available when the
bean receives the ApplicationContext. As workaround, I have changed the
concerned singletons from ApplicationContextAware to
ApplicationListener. And the initialization occurs in the
onApplicationEvent with a statement like "if (event instanceof
ContextRefreshedEvent) { x x x }".

Is this the best solution or initialling earlier the messageSource could
be possible?

Regards,
Jean-Pierre