Spring beans: ApplicationContextFactory

This code snipped shows you how to get a bean from the applicationContext.xml

<bean id="statusDao" parent="baseTransactionProxy">

<property name="target">

<bean class="com.xyz">

<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />

</bean>

</property>

</bean>

package com.xyz;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory;

public class Xyz

{

    public static void main(String[] args)

    {

XmlBeanFactory beans = ApplicationContextFactory.getXmlBeanFactoryInstance();

                   setBeanManager((PersistentBeanManager) application.getBean("hibernateBeanManager"));

        StatusDao statusDao = (StatusDao) beans.getBean("statusDao");

Status status = statusDao.fetch(new Long(1));

System.out.print(status.getEntity());

    }

}