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Explain the Spring bean lifecycle.

Tests whether you can sequence it correctly: instantiation, dependency injection, BeanPostProcessor pre-initialization, @PostConstruct/InitializingBean, the bean's ready-to-use phase, and finally @PreDestroy/DisposableBean on container shutdown -- the ordering, not just the hook names.

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