Spring root WebApplicationContext for Servlet

Question

I have a webapp that uses SpringMVC DispatcherServlet to load a WebApplicationContext. The Spring reference documentation says:

\"each DispatcherServ

Answer 1

We have applicationContext.xml in theWEB-INF directory, and the beans in that config are available to the spring-servlet.xml config, its defined using

    contextConfigLocation
    /WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml

By the way its the ContextLoaderListener which is responsible for managing the root context

    org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener