The way of loading a Spring Application Context in Java Web Applications and JSE applications is commonly known. For web applications packaged in WAR files, in a web.xml file need to be declared a ContextLoaderListener and a contextConfigLocation context parameter which refers to XML Spring Application Context configurations. On the other hand, for JSE applications a Spring Application Context is loaded manually in code.
This article tries to present how to design a Java EE application that gives a possibility to load a Spring Application Context without using a WebApplicationContext. It is not always required to have a web nature of a Java enterprise application.

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