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

The method close has been added to ConfigurableApplicationContext interface, so the best you can do to get access to it is:

ConfigurableApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
                "/app-context.xml");

// Use the context...

context.close();