How to Create ApplicationContext with ClassPathXmlApplicationContext in Spring Framework ?.

A simple example demonstrating the creation of ApplicationContext using ClassPathXmlApplicationContext in Spring Framework



1. Create a normal class having a method say 'Dog' -

package com.hubberspot.spring;


public class Dog {

 public void move() {
  System.out.println("Dog moving ...");
 }

}

2. Create a spring.xml file placed in classpath of your application -

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN 2.0//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans-2.0.dtd"> <beans> <!-- In order to create an object of bean we define its properties in bean tag. The 'id' attribute value can be thought of as a reference to 'class' attribute value --> <bean id="dog" class="com.hubberspot.spring.Dog" /> </beans>

3. Create a Test class for the application (imp) -

package com.hubberspot.spring;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;


public class WildLifeApplication {

 public static void main(String[] args) {

  // ApplicationContext is a Spring interface which 
  // provides with the configuration for an application. 
  // It provides us with all the methods that BeanFactory 
  // provides. It loads the file resources in a older 
  // and generic manner. It helps us to publish events to the
  // listener registered to it. It also provides quick support
  // for internationalization. It provides us with the object 
  // requested, it reads the configuration file and provides
  // us with the necessary object required.
  // We are using concrete implementation of ApplicationContext
  // here called as ClassPathXmlApplicationContext because this 
  // bean factory reads the xml file placed in the classpath of 
  // our application. We provide ClassPathXmlApplicationContext
  // with a configuration file called as spring.xml placed
  // at classpath of our application. 
  ApplicationContext context = 
    new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(("spring.xml"));

  // In order to get a object instantiated for a particular bean 
  // we call getBean() method of ClassPathXmlApplicationContext
  // passing it the id for which the object is to be needed. 
  // Here getBean() returns an Object. We need to cast it back 
  // to the Dog object. Without implementing new keyword we 
  // have injected object of Dog just by reading an xml 
  // configuration file.
  Dog dog = (Dog)context.getBean("dog");

  // Calling our functionality
  dog.move();

 }

}

Output of the program :