Command line app: How to check for existing ApplicationContext?

[antidotes]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post, I am a newbie in spring. I am wondering how do I check from the same program an already running instance of ApplicationContext?
So if there's already an instance running, I can exit the second one immediately.

This is so that I can ensure that there is only one instance of the program running. FYI, I'm running a command line app that will execute some cron job stuff. The app will start with some parameters arguments.

Right now, my implementation is I'm writing a flag file to the local disk but I would like to know whether there are cooler things that I can do with spring.

I learning a lot of neat stuff using Spring. It will be a pleasure to know more.

[Jörg Heinicke]

Same answer as to a recent thread.

Joerg