if you want to use spring framework in your java application (jar) you need to take care for something.
First of all you need to use apache-shade-plugin for read your applicationContext.xml file in jar.
Here is sample pom.xml
<groupid>tr.com.kiraz</groupid>
<artifactid>fatura</artifactid>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>fatura</name>
<properties>
<project .build.sourceencoding="">UTF-8</project>
<project .reporting.outputencoding="">UTF-8</project>
<argline>-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8</argline>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupid>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupid>
<artifactid>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactid>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source></source>1.6
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<!-- Build an executable JAR -->
<groupid>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupid>
<artifactid>maven-jar-plugin</artifactid>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addclasspath>true</addclasspath>
<mainclass>tr.com.tnbkep.BankaFatura</mainclass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupid>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupid>
<artifactid>maven-shade-plugin</artifactid>
<version>2.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<transformers>
<!--<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ComponentsXmlResourceTransformer"/>-->
<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
<resource>META-INF/spring.handlers</resource>
</transformer>
<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
<resource>META-INF/spring.schemas</resource>
</transformer>
</transformers>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>