Spring Configuration

Question

I\'ve been reading up on Spring and it keeps talking about the spring configuration data you need, but where do you put this xml file? and what do you save it as? I can\'t s

Answer 1

As others pointed out the name of the Spring configuration file is not very important. The real question is how this file is loaded. In a standalone application you do it explicitly by using something like the ClassPathXmlApplicationContext class, as described in this part of the Spring documentation.

In a web application this is usually configured in the web.xml file, by adding definitions for configuration listeners, and possibly configuration files. This is the setup I use:

        contextConfigLocation
        classpath:appContext.xml
    

        org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
    
    
        org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener
    

This allows me to put the config file anywhere I like, as long as it's on the application's classpath. You can even specify several configuration files in the param-value element, by separating them with spaces.