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Spring Framework - BeanFactoryPostProcessor Examples

[Last Updated: Nov 8, 2025]

Spring Framework 

Programmatically registering beans by implementing BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessor

package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanFactoryPostProcessor;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.GenericBeanDefinition;

public class MyBeanFactoryPostProcessor implements BeanFactoryPostProcessor {

@Override
public void postProcessBeanFactory(
ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory)
throws BeansException {

GenericBeanDefinition bd = new GenericBeanDefinition();
bd.setBeanClass(MyBean.class);
bd.getPropertyValues().add("strProp", "my string property");

((DefaultListableBeanFactory) beanFactory)
.registerBeanDefinition("myBeanName", bd);
}
}

package com.logicbig.example;

public class MyBean {
private String strProp;

public void setStrProp(String strProp) {
this.strProp = strProp;
}

public void doSomething() {
System.out.println("from MyBean: " + strProp);
}
}

package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

@Configuration
public class MyConfig {
@Bean
public static MyBeanFactoryPostProcessor myConfigBean() {
return new MyBeanFactoryPostProcessor();
}
}

package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext;

public class BeanFactoryPostProcessorExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {
AnnotationConfigApplicationContext context =
new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(MyConfig.class);
MyBean bean = context.getBean(MyBean.class);
bean.doSomething();
}

}

Output

from MyBean:  my string property
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