Loading applicationcontext.xml when using SpringApplication

spring-boot applicationcontext
Raster picture Raster · Mar 20, 2015 · Viewed 24.6k times · Source

Could anyone provide an example of a SpringApplication that loads an applicationContext.xml file?

I'm attempting to move my GWT RPC application to a RESTful web service by using a Spring's Example (Gradle based). I have an applicationContext.xml but I do not see how to get SpringApplication to load it. Loading manually via

ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(args);

results in an empty context. ...and even if that worked it would be separate from the one returned from

SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);

Or is there a way to get external beans into the app context created by SpringApplication.run?

Answer

Tomasz Dzieniak picture Tomasz Dzieniak · May 12, 2016

If you'd like to use file from your classpath, you can always do this:

@SpringBootApplication
@ImportResource("classpath:applicationContext.xml")
public class ExampleApplication {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        SpringApplication.run(ExampleApplication.class, args);
    }
}

Notice the classpath string in @ImportResource annotation.

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