How does Lifecycle interface work in Spring? What are “top-level singleton beans”?

Question

It is said in Spring javadoc, that \"Note that the Lifecycle interface is only supported on top-level singleton beans.\" Here URL

My LifecycleBeanTest.xml d

Answer 1

What about using SmartLifecycle? Seems like it provides all necessary functionality.

There is method public void stop(Runnable contextStopping) {}. And you can continue app context closing by executing passed in contextStopping in time you want.

In my environment all works fine even on J-UNIT, of course by running them with SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.