spring-core

org.springframework.core
Interface PriorityOrdered

All Superinterfaces:
Ordered

public interface PriorityOrdered
extends Ordered

Extension of the Ordered interface, expressing a 'priority' ordering: Order values expressed by PriorityOrdered objects always apply before order values of 'plain' Ordered values.

This is primarily a special-purpose interface, used for objects where it is particularly important to determine 'prioritized' objects first, without even obtaining the remaining objects. A typical example: Prioritized post-processors in a Spring org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext.

Note: PriorityOrdered post-processor beans are initialized in a special phase, ahead of other post-processor beans. This subtly affects their autowiring behavior: They will only be autowired against beans which do not require eager initialization for type matching.

Since:
2.5
Author:
Juergen Hoeller
See Also:
org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyOverrideConfigurer, org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer

Field Summary
 
Fields inherited from interface org.springframework.core.Ordered
HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE, LOWEST_PRECEDENCE
 
Method Summary
 
Methods inherited from interface org.springframework.core.Ordered
getOrder
 


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