Advanced XML Config

The MVC namespace does not have an advanced mode. If you need to customize a property on a bean that you cannot change otherwise, you can use the BeanPostProcessor lifecycle hook of the Spring ApplicationContext, as the following example shows:

Java
Kotlin

@Component
public class MyPostProcessor implements BeanPostProcessor {

	public Object postProcessBeforeInitialization(Object bean, String name) throws BeansException {
		// ...
	}
}

@Component
class MyPostProcessor : BeanPostProcessor {

	override fun postProcessBeforeInitialization(bean: Any, name: String): Any {
		// ...
	}
}

Note that you need to declare MyPostProcessor as a bean, either explicitly in XML or by letting it be detected through a <component-scan/> declaration.