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Load a Spring ApplicationContext from the supplied locations.

Implementation details:

• Creates a GenericApplicationContext instance.
• Calls .prepareContext(GenericApplicationContext) to allow for customizing the context before bean definitions are loaded.
• Calls .customizeBeanFactory(DefaultListableBeanFactory) to allow for customizing the context's DefaultListableBeanFactory.
• Delegates to .createBeanDefinitionReader(GenericApplicationContext) to create a BeanDefinitionReader which is then used to populate the context from the specified locations.
• Delegates to AnnotationConfigUtils for registering annotation configuration processors.
• Calls .customizeContext(GenericApplicationContext) to allow for customizing the context before it is refreshed.
• Refreshes the context and registers a JVM shutdown hook for it.

Note: this method does not provide a means to set active bean definition profiles for the loaded context. See .loadContext(MergedContextConfiguration) and AbstractContextLoader.prepareContext(GenericApplicationContextConfigurableApplicationContext, MergedContextConfiguration) for an alternative. @return a new application context @see org.springframework.test.context.ContextLoader#loadContext @see GenericApplicationContext @see #loadContext(MergedContextConfiguration) @since 2.5

Register classes in the supplied context from the classes in the supplied MergedContextConfiguration.

Each class must represent an annotated class. An AnnotatedBeanDefinitionReader is used to register the appropriate bean definitions.

Note that this method does not call .createBeanDefinitionReader() since AnnotatedBeanDefinitionReader is not an instance of BeanDefinitionReader. @param context the context in which the annotated classes should be registered @param mergedConfig the merged configuration from which the classes should be retrieved @see AbstractGenericContextLoader#loadBeanDefinitions