Spring 5 Design Patterns

Creating the application context from configuration

Spring provides multiple implementations of ApplicationContext to load the various styles of configuration file. These are listed next:

• For Java configuration, the following is used:

        ApplicationContext context = new            AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(AppConfig.class); 

• For XML configuration, the implementation is as follows:

        ApplicationContext context = new          ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml"); 

In the preceding codes, Spring loads the Java configuration files by using the AnnotationConfigApplicationContext class, and the XML configuration files by using the ClassPathXmlApplicationContext class for the Spring container. Spring behaves the same for all types of ...