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

If you are using the ClassPathXmlApplicationContext then you can use

((ClassPathXmlApplicationContext) context).close();

to close the resource leak problem.

If you are using the AbstractApplicationContext then you can cast this with close method.

((AbstractApplicationContext) context).close();

It depends on the type of context using in the application.