This example shows how to configure the Spring container for the process application in Java using @Configure and @Bean. It uses the sample application from the spring getting started guide.

You have to run this example in the prepackaged distro or install the process engine as a shared engine before.

The process instance is started after deployment. See implementation of the org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean in Starter

If you start your project with the ClassPathXmlApplicationContext in Java 7, you will often code something like

try (ClassPathXmlApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("META-INF/userLibrary.xml")) {
    service = context.getBean(UserLibrary.class);
}

If you change the ClassPathApplicationContext to a AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext, the context will not be closed on undeploy and you will get an error that the web application is unable to start again.

To resolve this, remove the try-with-resource statement and everything works fine.

http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/beans.html#beans-java