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

Casting is the correct resolution for this issue. I faced the same issue using the below line. ApplicationContext ctx = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(SpringConfig.class);

To resolve the warning just downcast the ctx object like below and then close it. ((AnnotationConfigApplicationContext) ctx).close();