Using Spring in a standalone application

Question

i am looking for samples or tutorials of using Spring in a standalone (desktop/swing) application, i searched a lot but couldn't get to something useful, all the examples and tutorials are for web applications, please advise.

Answer 1

1. Create the standalone application with maven, as pointed here:

   Create a standalone application with Maven

2. Put the applicationContext in classpath, and load it in the main class as follows:

   ClassPathXmlApplicationContext ctx =          new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml"); 

   See full article here:

   http://www.devdaily.com/blog/post/java/load-spring-application-context-file-java-swing-application