Difference between applicationContext.xml and spring-servlet.xml in Spring Framework

Question

• Are applicationContext.xml and spring-servlet.xml related anyhow in Spring Framework?
  
• Will the properties files declared in

Answer 1

One more point I want to add. In spring-servlet.xml we include component scan for Controller package. In following example we include filter annotation for controller package.

In applicationcontext.xml we add filter for remaining package excluding controller.