Running a Spring Application

Setting the CLASSPATH

Configure your application's CLASSPATH as follows:

Add all of the JAR files in RouterRoot/lib and RouterRoot/lib/optional to your CLASSPATH. This step can be simplified if you use a general-purpose build tool such as Apache Maven or Apache Ant to build your application.
Add the directory containing META-INF/spring/*.xml to your CLASSPATH.

Running the application

If you coded a main() method, as described in Defining a Spring Main Method, you can run your application using Sun's J2SE interpreter with the following command:

java my.package.name.Main

If you are developing the application using a Java IDE (for example, Eclipse or IntelliJ), you can typically run your application by selecting the my.package.name.Main class and directing the IDE to run the class. Normally, an IDE automatically chooses the static main() method as the entry point to run the class.