How to correctly access ApplicationContext after it's been initialized?

[Royan]

I'm quite new to Spring so sorry for the stupid question. For test purposes i've initialized by beans in the following way:

public static void main(String[] args) {

            ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("context.xml");
            Foo f = (Foo) context.getBean("foo");
            f.start();
    }

And that would work fine, but when it comes to the bigger application what is the correct way to access context object? Do I have to create singleton for that purpose?

[Hetal B]

You can use ContextConfigListener and mention the files in the context params.

[Hetal B]

<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoade rListener</listener-class>
</listener>


servlet>
<servlet-name>crmapp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherSe rvlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/config/spring_context/web/applicationcontext.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

Hope this helps