Right path to applicationContext.xml using ClassPathXmlApplicationContext

Question

I have working web-application with applicationContext.xml in WEB-INF/config/applicationContext.xml. Now i need to implement some testing tool as standalone application, that ca

Answer 1

In a local test scenario, you are not inside a Jar, so you don't need Classpath-based access. Use FileSystemXmlApplicationContext instead.

Probably something like this:

private static final ApplicationContext ac =
    new FileSystemXmlApplicationContext(
        "src/WEB-INF/config/applicationContext.xml"
    );

(paths are relative from the execution directory)