The ApplicationContextAware Interface

In the previous post we saw how the ApplicationContext as the more powerful container in Spring. In a BeanFactory based environment Spring provides us with the BeanFactoryAware interface to help a bean get access to its loading BeanFactory container.Similarly for the application context

Using the ApplicationContext

In all of the previous posts we have been working with the BeanFactory. However in order to use all of Spring's functionalities we need to use a more powerful version of the Spring Container.