Spring context from within a jar file

Question

I\'m developing a desktop application in java using spring and hibernate. I want to package it as a executable jar but I\'m having problems loading the context configuration XML

Answer 1

I suppose you want to run your application as java -jar myapp.jar

In this case, use class ClassPathXmlApplicationContext within your class with the method main.

public static void main( String[] args ) {
    String config[] = { "spring-beans.xml" };
    ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(config);
    DataSource ds = (DataSource) ctx.getBean("dataSource", DataSource.class);
}

It's a terrible idea to try to implement your own ApplicationContext. That's too much work and too much room for errors.