How to get Spring Context

Question

I have a third party library that starting up my aplication, load spring context and save it in private static filed without any acessors.

I need to get this context to my application. Does spring provides some callbacks like afterContextLoaded methods or any other ways how to get it?

Reflection is not a solution for me!

Thanks.

Answer 1

you have several ways to archive that:

1. Use ApplicationListerner and ApplicatinEvent
2. Use ApplicationContextAware

Both of them can be found at http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.0.M4/reference/html/ch03s13.html (sorry for the link is not to the latest version)

Answer 2

Just implement ApplicationContextAware in a Spring bean.

If you want to access the AppContext on startup, then also implement InitializingBean and put your code in afterPropertiesSet() - the ApplicationContext instance will be populated and ready for use at that time.