lazy init
File: context.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd"> <bean id="destructiveBean" lazy-init="false" class="java.lang.String"> </bean> </beans> File: Main.java import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext; import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("context.xml"); ctx.getBean("destructiveBean"); } }