Question

I have a RESTful service using Jersey/Spring/Tomcat. My question is – is it possible to access the classes within my war from command line (without the web interface)?

The problem is the JDBC connections and some other beans are managed by spring. So how do I load all these beans without the web container?

Answer 1

You can easily initialize application context and load all the classes manually. Here is an example:

ConfigurableApplicationContext applicationContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("/applicationContext.xml");
YourBean yourBean = applicationContext.getBean("yourBean", YourBean.class);        
applicationContext.close();