Documentation for SmartLifecycle and LifecycleProcessor [SPR-6341]

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Dave Syer opened SPR-6341 and commented

Documentation is missing (beans.xml?) for SmartLifecycle and LifecycleProcessor (#10179 and friends).

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Affects: 3.0 RC2

Issue Links:

• Phased Lifecycle Stop [SPR-5507] #10179 Phased Lifecycle Stop ("depends on")

Referenced from: commits f6a2e58

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Mark Fisher commented

I was looking for the Lifecycle interface discussion so that I could just append to that. However, I was unable to find it. Either I'm missing something, or we actually need to consider adding a new section altogether - starting with Lifecycle itself.

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Dave Syer commented

I guess Lifecycle was mainly an internal interface up to now. We are getting a lot of interest in the new processor, so I vote for a new section.

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Mark Fisher commented

I will add a new sub-section for Lifecycle, SmartLifecycle, and the LifecycleProcessor. I think it would make sense to include this within the current section 3.6.1 (where init and destroy lifecycle callbacks are discussed).

I will be committing #10179 momentarily (just wrapping up some tests) with the new changes such that start calls are also ordered by the 'phase' of each bean. Then, I will start the documentation.

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Mark Fisher commented

Added the documentation. #10179 is still open for review, but the start order is now following the phase value as well.