Lifecycle Callbacks

Beyond construction, beans pass through phases: the container instantiates them, injects dependencies, runs initialization callbacks, serves requests, then runs destruction callbacks at shutdown.

Hooking into these phases lets you set up and clean up resources reliably.

A constructor runs before dependencies are injected when using setter/field injection, so collaborators may still be null. Initialization that depends on injected beans belongs in a post-construction callback, not the constructor.

With constructor injection the dependencies are present, but lifecycle callbacks still give a clear, intent-revealing place for setup.