Can I compose a Spring Configuration File from smaller ones?

Question

I have a handful of projects that all use one project for the data model. Each of these projects has its own applicationContext.xml file with a bunch of repetitive data stuff w

Answer 1

We do this in our projects at work, using the classpath* resource loader in Spring. For a certain app, all appcontext files containing the application id will be loaded:

classpath*:springconfig/spring-appname-*.xml