PriorityOrdered (Spring Framework 3.2.1.RELEASE API)
Date: 2013-01-24

org.springframework.core

## Interface PriorityOrdered

- All Superinterfaces:
    Ordered
  All Known Implementing Classes:
    AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor, CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor, InitDestroyAnnotationBeanPostProcessor, PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor, PlaceholderConfigurerSupport, PreferencesPlaceholderConfigurer, PropertyOverrideConfigurer, PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, PropertyResourceConfigurer, PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer, RequiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor, ServletContextPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer

      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 `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:
    `PropertyOverrideConfigurer`, `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`