intermediateSpring Internals — Bean Lifecycle & Proxies

Why does a manually instantiated bean (new MyService()) never receive dependency injection or AOP advice?

Dependency injection and AOP proxying both happen through Spring's container-managed bean creation lifecycle (BeanPostProcessors, autowiring). An object created with `new` bypasses the container entirely, so none of that machinery ever touches it.

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