BeanFactory not initialized or already closed - call 'refresh' before

Question

here is my error:

I am getting this error , can any one help me on this.

> SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener
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Answer 1

In my case, this error was due to the Network connection error that i was noticed in log.

Answer 2

This exception come due to you are providing listener ContextLoaderListener

<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

but you are not providing context-param for your spring configuration file. like applicationContext.xml You must provide below snippet for your configuration

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

If You are providing the java based spring configuration , means you are not using xml file for spring configuration at that time you must provide below code:

<!-- Configure ContextLoaderListener to use AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
instead of the default XmlWebApplicationContext -->
<context-param>
    <param-name>contextClass</param-name>
    <param-value>
    org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
    </param-value>
</context-param>

<!-- Configuration locations must consist of one or more comma- or space-delimited
fully-qualified @Configuration classes. Fully-qualified packages may also
be specified for component-scanning -->
<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>com.nirav.modi.config.SpringAppConfig</param-value>
</context-param>

Answer 3

In my case, the error "BeanFactory not initialized or already closed - call 'refresh' before" was a consequence of a previous error that I didn't noticed in the server startup. I think that it is not always the real cause of the problem.

Answer 4

In my case, the error was valid and it was due to using try with resource

 try (ConfigurableApplicationContext cxt = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
                    "classpath:application-main-config.xml")) {..
}

It auto closes the stream which should not happen if I want to reuse this context in other beans.