How can I access the spring context ?

How can I access the spring context ?

There are 2 cases :

a) In an application
b) In a test application

a) In an application

1) You have to implement the interface ApplicationContextAware

example :

public class TelemetryConsumptionSynchronizer extends BaseSynchronizer implements ApplicationContextAware

2) Implementation of the method setApplicationContext

...
    ApplicationContext applicationContext;
...
    @Override
    public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext) throws BeansException {
        logger.debug("entering setApplicationContext");
        this.applicationContext = applicationContext;
        logger.debug("leaving setApplicationContext");
    }

b) In a test application

It is more easy because you only have to inject the context.

example :

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(
        locations = {
                "classpath:el1EnergyCommSyncContextTest.xml"
        }
)
public class TelemetryConsumptionSynchronizerTest {
...
    @Resource
    private ApplicationContext applicationContext;
}