how to reference a bean of another xml file in spring

Question

I have a Spring bean defined in an xml file. I want to reference it from another xml file. How can I go about it?

Answer 1

Answer provided by tolitius is very detailed. Just for the problem mentioned by Peter Butkovic

for me web.xml chunk throws error. One param-value seems to be allowed only in place. – Peter Butkovic

I met the same problem and solved by spliting two paths with "," in the same tag.

It will look like this

    
        contextConfigLocation
        /WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml,
                     /WEB-INF/daoContext.xml