Adding ContextLoaderListener to web.xml in Spring MVC

Question

I am new to Spring MVC. I have a web application. I have the following configuration:

Answer 1

It is optional, you don't really need it just for Spring MVC (DispatcherServlet will do). But adding Spring security to your Spring MVC must be done with

        org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener

Just one remark, if using ContextLoaderListener you will have to add DelegatingFilterProxy:

    
        org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
    



    springSecurityFilterChain
    org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy


    springSecurityFilterChain
    /admin



    contextConfigLocation
         
    /WEB-INF/spring-security.xml
    

in your web.xml as well. Sorry for being four years too late. Cheers