Getting Spring ApplicationContext

This post list down the steps to get Sprint ApplicationContext

1. Create a class ApplicationContextProvider

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware;

public class ApplicationContextProvider implements ApplicationContextAware {
    private static ApplicationContext context;

    public static ApplicationContext getApplicationContext() {
        return context;
    }

    @Override
    public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext ctx) {
        context = ctx;
    }
}

2. Declare a bean in applicationContext.xml
    <bean id="applicationContextProvider" class="aa.bb.cc.ApplicationContextProvider"/>

3. Get the ApplicationContext
        context = ApplicationContextProvider.getApplicationContext();