Using Spring in a standalone application

Question

Create the standalone application with maven, as pointed here:

Create a standalone application with Maven
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