How to get spring ApplicationContext in ServletContextListener?

Question

In servet class it's possible to get spring ApplicationContext this way

ApplicationContext ctx = WebApplicationContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(getServletContext());

How to access ApplicationContext in ServletContextListener since getServletContext() method is not accessible there?

Answer 1

In contextInitialized :

public void contextInitialized(final ServletContextEvent event)
{
    ApplicationContext appCtx = WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(event.getServletContext());
}