Order of loading contextConfigLocation in web.xml of Spring Servlet project

Question

Suppose that I have a Spring Java project and I am trying to configure it as a web server servlet. Here is a stripped-down version of the web.xml f

Answer 1

The below part loads the context file and create the ApplicationContext. This context might, for instance, contain components such as middle-tier transactional services, data access objects, or other objects that you might want to use (and re-use) across the application. There will be one application context per application.

    contextConfigLocation
    
        /WEB-INF/spring/generalApplicationContext.xml
    

The other context is the WebApplicationContext which is the child context of the application context. Each DispatcherServlet defined in a Spring web application will have an associated WebApplicationContext. The initialization of the WebApplicationContext happens like this:

    my-servlet
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
    
        contextConfigLocation
        /WEB-INF/spring/specificApplicationContext.xml
    
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