CustomEvent.java code:

package demo;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationEvent;

public class CustomEvent extends ApplicationEvent{
   public CustomEvent(Object source) {
      super(source);
   }
   public String toString(){
      return "Custom Event";
   }
}

CustomEventPublisher.java code:

package demo;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationListener;

public class CustomEventHandler implements ApplicationListener<CustomEvent> {
   public void onApplicationEvent(CustomEvent event) {
      System.out.println(event.toString());
   }
}

package demo;

mport org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class MainApp {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      ConfigurableApplicationContext context = 
         new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("Beans.xml");
	  
      CustomEventPublisher cvp = 
         (CustomEventPublisher) context.getBean("customEventPublisher");
      
      cvp.publish();  
      cvp.publish();
   }
}

xml code:

<beans xmlns = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

   <bean id = "customEventHandler" class = "demo.CustomEventHandler"/>
   <bean id = "customEventPublisher" class = "demo.CustomEventPublisher"/>

</beans>