Splitting applicationContext to multiple files

Question

What is the correct way to split Spring\'s configuration to multiple xml files?

At the moment I have

• /WEB-INF/foo-servlet.xml

Answer 1

There are two types of contexts we are dealing with:

1: root context (parent context. Typically include all jdbc(ORM, Hibernate) initialisation and other spring security related configuration)

2: individual servlet context (child context.Typically Dispatcher Servlet Context and initialise all beans related to spring-mvc (controllers , URL Mapping etc)).

Here is an example of web.xml which includes multiple application context file

    Spring Web Application example

    
    
        org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
    
    
        contextConfigLocation
        
            /WEB-INF/spring/jdbc/spring-jdbc.xml 
            /WEB-INF/spring/security/spring-security-context.xml 
        
    

    
    
        spring-mvc
        org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
        
            contextConfigLocation
            
                /WEB-INF/spring/mvc/spring-mvc-servlet.xml
            
        
    
    
        spring-mvc
        /admin/*