What is the meaning of lazy-initialization in Spring Boot properties file ?

[onyx condor]

In one of our projects in company. A teammate did this long time ago, and I don't get why ?
The property documentation says :

Whether initialization should be performed lazily. - default value is false

spring:
  main:
    lazy-initialization: true

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[rough vector]

IIRC that should be about bean initialization

so if you have

@Component
public class SomeComponent {
  @Autowired
  private OtherComponent other;
}

then lazy initialization allows Spring to create and register SomeComponent before the OtherComponent bean is fully initialized

[rough vector]

nvm not that

it means that if you declare a bean, it will only be created when it's actually needed

[onyx condor]

so that property makes all beans in the app lazy ?

[rough vector]

yes

[onyx condor]

got it

and that could harm the app ?

[rough vector]

it can delay errors

so if there's something wrong with a bean, the application might still start but cause exceptions in the future

with eager initialization, you see these exceptions directly when the applicatio starts up so you immediately know when something is wrong