Why do we need it?

• Allows our beans to reference the context
• Allows our beans to perform a getBean() from within rather
• Used if dependents are prototypes that we want to be created each time
• Otherwise, Spring injects singleton dependents during initialisation

In the Bean

• Make Spring Bean implement ApplicationContextAware
• create private member variable for ApplicationContext
• override public void setApplicationContext(…)

Problem

• Tightly couples our code to the Spring Framework