Spring ApplicationContext - Resource leak: 'context' is never closed

Question

In a spring MVC application, I initialize a variable in one of the service classes using the following approach:

ApplicationContext context = 
         new C         


        

Answer 1

As the Application context has an instance of ClassPathXmlApplicationContext and the same has a close() method. I would simply CAST the appContext object and invoke the close() method as below.

ApplicationContext appContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("spring.xml");
//do some logic
((ClassPathXmlApplicationContext) appContext).close();

This will fix the Resource Leak warning.