How to inject ApplicationContext itself

Question

I want to inject an ApplicationContext itself to a bean.

Something like

public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContect context) {   this.context = context; } 

Is that possible in spring?

Answer 1

Previous comments are ok, but I usually prefer:

@Autowired private ApplicationContext applicationContext; 

Answer 2

Easy, using the ApplicationContextAware interface.

public class A implements ApplicationContextAware {   private ApplicationContext context;    public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext context) {       this.context = context;   } } 

Then in your actual applicationContext you only need to reference your bean.

<bean id="a" class="com.company.A" />