get access to the Spring application context from a non-managed bean

AppContext.java

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;

public class AppContext {

    private static ApplicationContext context;

    public static void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext) {
        context = applicationContext;
    }

    public static ApplicationContext getApplicationContext() {
        return context;
    }
}

ApplicationContextProvider.java

import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware;
import org.springframework.core.Ordered;
import org.springframework.core.annotation.Order;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
@Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)
public class ApplicationContextProvider implements ApplicationContextAware {

    public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext ctx) throws BeansException {
        AppContext.setApplicationContext(ctx);
    }
}