Spring Bean Factory Exception : BeanFactory not initialized or already closed

The given exception is exception is thrown when the spring bean factory is not initialized properly before it is used in your application. It normally occurs when we are not added the bean factory initialization code in our project. One typical example is adding the spring initialization parameter to web.xml deployment descriptor.

[code lang=”xml”]
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>\WEB-INF\dispatcher-servlet.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
</listener-class>
</listener>
[/code]

Exception Trace:

[code]
SEVERE: Exception sending context destroyed event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
java.lang.IllegalStateException: BeanFactory not initialized or already closed – call ‘refresh’ before accessing beans via the ApplicationContext
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.
getBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:171)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.
destroyBeans(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1090)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.
doClose(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1064)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.
close(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1010)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.
closeWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:559)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.
contextDestroyed(ContextLoaderListener.java:143)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStop(StandardContext.java:3973)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.stop(StandardContext.java:4577)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4474)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:722)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:583)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
[/code]