diff --git a/spring-core/.gitignore b/spring-core/.gitignore
index 6531dfc93f..08259abdaf 100644
--- a/spring-core/.gitignore
+++ b/spring-core/.gitignore
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ RemoteSystemsTempFiles/
 bin/
 .metadata/
 docs/*.autosave
-docs/*.autosave
 .recommenders/
 build/
 .gradle/
 .DS_Store
+.idea/
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diff --git a/spring-core/pom.xml b/spring-core/pom.xml
index 9b94ba7b35..a2e306a61f 100644
--- a/spring-core/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-core/pom.xml
@@ -14,12 +14,6 @@
     </description>
 
     <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>junit</groupId>
-            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>4.11</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
             <artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
@@ -50,6 +44,11 @@
             <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
             <version>1</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+            <version>4.12</version>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/spring-core/src/main/java/com/baeldung/beanfactory/BeanFactoryWithClassPathResource.java b/spring-core/src/main/java/com/baeldung/beanfactory/BeanFactoryWithClassPathResource.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3a7682641e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-core/src/main/java/com/baeldung/beanfactory/BeanFactoryWithClassPathResource.java
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package com.baeldung.beanfactory;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory;
+import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
+import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+public class BeanFactoryWithClassPathResource {
+
+    @Test
+    public void createBeanFactoryAndCheckEmployeeBean() {
+
+        Resource res = new ClassPathResource("spring-app.xml");
+        BeanFactory factory = new XmlBeanFactory(res);
+        Employee emp = (Employee) factory.getBean("employee");
+
+        assertFalse(factory.isSingleton("employee"));
+        assertTrue(factory.getBean("employee") instanceof Employee);
+        assertTrue(factory.isTypeMatch("employee", Employee.class));
+        assertTrue(factory.getAliases("employee").length > 0);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/spring-core/src/main/java/com/baeldung/beanfactory/Employee.java b/spring-core/src/main/java/com/baeldung/beanfactory/Employee.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bd7c7a5dc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-core/src/main/java/com/baeldung/beanfactory/Employee.java
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package com.baeldung.beanfactory;
+
+public class Employee {
+
+    private String name;
+    private int age;
+
+    public Employee(String name, int age) {
+        this.name = name;
+        this.age = age;
+    }
+
+    public String getName() {
+        return name;
+    }
+
+    public void setName(String name) {
+        this.name = name;
+    }
+
+    public int getAge() {
+        return age;
+    }
+
+    public void setAge(int age) {
+        this.age = age;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/spring-core/src/main/java/com/baeldung/beanfactory/spring-app.xml b/spring-core/src/main/java/com/baeldung/beanfactory/spring-app.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7b3d4f29ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-core/src/main/java/com/baeldung/beanfactory/spring-app.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<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="employee" class="com.baeldung.beanfactory.Employee">
+        <constructor-arg name="name" value="Hello! My name is Java"/>
+        <constructor-arg name="age" value="18"/>
+    </bean>
+    
+    <alias name="employee" alias="empalias" />
+</beans>
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