Spring Java Config with Multiple Dispatchers

Question

I\'ve some experience Spring now and also have some pure java config web-apps in use. However, these are usually based on a quiet simple setup:

• application con

Answer 1

I think you can work it out if you use generic WebApplicationInitializer interface rather than using abstract implementation provided by spring - AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer.

That way, you could create two separate initializers, so you would get different ServletContext on startUp() method and register different AppConfig & dispatcher servlets for each of them.

One of such implementing class may look like this:

public class FirstAppInitializer implements WebApplicationInitializer {

    public void onStartup(ServletContext container) throws ServletException {

        AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext ctx = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
        ctx.register(AppConfig.class);
        ctx.setServletContext(container);

        ServletRegistration.Dynamic servlet = container.addServlet(
                "dispatcher", new DispatcherServlet(ctx));

        servlet.setLoadOnStartup(1);
        servlet.addMapping("/control");

    }

}