ApplicationContext and ServletContext

Question

I get confused between the two ApplicationContext and ServletContext when it comes to Spring MVC Application. I know that There is just only One ApplicationContext per Sprin

Answer 1

In Spring, to read a specific initialisation configuration file, we use the context-param with the predefined name called contextConfigLocation.

  WebFlow context configuration
  contextConfigLocation
  /WEB-INF/test-context.xml
 

But in case of Plain J2EE web application without including any frameworks, the context-param can read from any where in the application i.e. any servlet, filter.

The difference between ApplicationContext and ServletContext, sanjay explained