Availability of ApplicationContext object

[keerthi vineela]

Hi,

Suppose i have spring application context object,but i am not sending any request to the container,i want to use the object which reside on the context level in my util class ,will it possible to access that object in my util class?

Thanks in advance

[bala nannaka]

you can get applicationContext object using

ClassPathXmlApplicationContext appContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
new String[] {"applicationContext.xml", "applicationContext-part2.xml"});
// of course, an ApplicationContext is just a BeanFactory
BeanFactory factory = (BeanFactory) appContext;

you can keep this in your utility class and use it. But if you change any thing you need to clear this then only you can get the latest bean definitions.