title: Spring bean initialized on web app starts up
body: <p>This is probably due to my ignorance of the Spring framewok but i am  building a JSF+Facelets+Spring web app, i have a bean that whose init method i want to get called at the time the application is started. My problem is getting the bean initialized. I can reference the bean on a page, and when I go to the page, the bean is initialized, and works as directed; what I would like instead is for the bean to be initialized when the application is started</p>
  
  <p>What is the way to get a Spring bean initialized on web app starts up</p>