title: Getting Spring Application Context
body: <p>Is there a way to statically/globally request a copy of the ApplicationContext in a Spring application?</p>
  
  <p>Assuming the main class starts up and initializes the application context, does it need to pass that down through the call stack to any classes that need it, or is there a way for a class to ask for the previously created context?  (Which I assume has to be a singleton?)</p>