What is difference between class path , file system?

Question

I know that:

1. ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("bean.xml");

   loads context definition from an XML

Answer 1

• ClassPathXmlApplicationContext will read files from your classpath. They must be in classes folder of your web application or in a jar in your libfolder.

• FileSystemXmlApplicationContext can access all your file system, for example c:/config/applicationContext.xml.

• XmlWebApplicationContext certainly can access to files contained in your web application, but this is not the most important thing. It implements WebApplicationContext and this means that it will detect ServletContextAware beans, register custom scopes (request, session, ...) among other things.