Spring bean depends on a conditional bean

Question

I want a spring bean to be instanciated after another bean. So I simply use the @DependsOn annotation.

The thing is : this other bean is a

Answer 1

Instead of using @DependsO you can use @AutoConfigureAfter()which will allow the second bean to be created even if the first bean was not created, but still keep the order.

@Configuration
public class FirstConfiguration {

  @Bean(name = "firstBean")
  @ConditionalOnProperty(name = "some.property", havingValue = true) 
  public FirstBean firstBean() {
     return new FirstBean();
  }
}

@Configuration
@AutoConfigureAfter(name = {"firstBean"})
public class SecondConfiguration {

  @Bean
  public SecondBean secondBean() {
       return new SecondBean();
  }
}