Romach-Education/add-spring-context

Add Spring context to Maven project

Add Spring context to Maven project

This project is based on chapter 2.2. Adding new beans to the Spring context from book Spring Starts here (2021) by Laurentiu Spilca.

Create Maven project with Intellij Idea

File > New project > Java

Add Spring Context dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
    <version>6.1.10</version>
</dependency>

Create Spring context

ApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext();

Add tests

Add dependency for Spring TestContext Framework

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
    <version>6.1.10</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Add dependency for JUnit

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
    <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
    <version>5.11.0-M2</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Create test to check that application context is created

public class ApplicationTests {

    @Test
    @DisplayName("Checks that Application Context is created")
    public void checkApplicationContextCreated() {
        ApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext();

        assertNotNull(context);
    }
}