Loading a context in command-line applications

[Alan Stewart]

I'm looking for a convenient, clean and resuable means of loading an application context for standard java command-line applications. I've been writing a number of batch type applications lately and I load the context with the ClasspathXmlApplicationContext in the main method.

Before I write something myself, I wanted to know if Spring provides, or someone has written something elegant that is analogous to the AbstractDependencyInjectionSpringContextTests for junit tests, where the user just implements the getConfigLocations() method.
Thanks
Alan

[karldmoore]

I'm pretty sure there was a discussion about something similar a few months ago. I'd have a search for it.

[al0]

Which problem do you try to solve?

You may load context with just 1 or 2 lines of code straightforward and absolutely understandable code.

Which benefits should prospective solution to bring? Just make the things less obvious or something else?

Regards,

Oleksandr

I'm looking for a convenient, clean and resuable means of loading an application context for standard java command-line applications. I've been writing a number of batch type applications lately and I load the context with the ClasspathXmlApplicationContext in the main method.

Before I write something myself, I wanted to know if Spring provides, or someone has written something elegant that is analogous to the AbstractDependencyInjectionSpringContextTests for junit tests, where the user just implements the getConfigLocations() method.
Thanks
Alan

[karldmoore]

You may load context with just 1 or 2 lines of code straightforward and absolutely understandable code.

Which benefits should prospective solution to bring? Just make the things less obvious or something else?

I'm pretty sure this was the general response to the post I mentioned earlier. If you are just loading the applicationContext, there's not really much more to do.