java beanutil 工具类_SpringUtil.java工具类有什么用啊？

为什么要继承ApplicationContextAware实现ApplicationContext的这些相关方法，感觉这些方法都在spring中有提供的啊,写这个SpringUtil.java工具类有什么用啊？在代码中也没有看到别的地方有对这个工具类的引用？？

代码如下：

import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware;

public class SpringContextUtil implements ApplicationContextAware {

private static ApplicationContext applicationContext;     //Spring应用上下文环境

public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext) throws BeansException {

SpringContextUtil.applicationContext = applicationContext;

}

public static ApplicationContext getApplicationContext() {

return applicationContext;

}

public static Object getBean(String name) throws BeansException {

return applicationContext.getBean(name);

}

public static T getBean(Class requiredType) {

return applicationContext.getBean(requiredType);

}

public static T getBean(String name, Class requiredType) throws BeansException {

return applicationContext.getBean(name, requiredType);

}

public static boolean containsBean(String name) {

return applicationContext.containsBean(name);

}

public static boolean isSingleton(String name) throws NoSuchBeanDefinitionException {

return applicationContext.isSingleton(name);

}

@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")

public static Class getType(String name) throws NoSuchBeanDefinitionException {

return applicationContext.getType(name);

}

public static String[] getAliases(String name) throws NoSuchBeanDefinitionException {

return applicationContext.getAliases(name);

}

}