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Spring AOP Source: Creating the Auto-Proxy Creator

Lifecycle of Spring's AOP auto-proxy creator as an infrastructure bean and BeanPostProcessor.

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This is a historical learning note and may contain outdated or incomplete understanding.

The auto-proxy creator is itself created as Spring infrastructure early enough to participate in later bean creation.

As a bean post-processor, it is registered before ordinary singleton instantiation completes. This ordering matters: if infrastructure that creates proxies were registered too late, earlier beans could miss wrapping.

Source-level class names/order are version-specific. Follow the current refresh()/post-processor registration path for the Spring version under study.

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