As we know how SpringBoot handles the containers, we can achieve the same thing in Spring using the XML configurations.
For that we first need to add the Spring Context into the pom.xml. Next we have to configure the Configuration file where we will store all the beans we want.
For that we will be creating a resourses directory where we will create the XML configuration file, say spring.xml,
Then we will add the bean in it. For that, we will use id which we will use to refer the class and class which is the package name we are referring to.
<bean id="student" class="org.vishal.Student">
</bean>
Now to access the bean from the container, we have to create the ApplicationContext context. Since we are not using SpringBoot, we to load the configuration by ourselves and we do that using the ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.
In the ClassPathXmlApplicationContext, we simply pass the XML config file in double quotes.
ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("spring.xml"); // File name here
Now to get the bean from the container, we use the getBean() method and pass the id we used for creating the bean in the XML config file.
Student student =(Student) context.getBean("student"); // Passing bean id we used in XML config