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

Given what Nicholas pointed me to I found this in the docs. It allows me to pick at runtime the bean contexts I'm interested in.

GenericApplicationContext ctx = new GenericApplicationContext();
XmlBeanDefinitionReader xmlReader = new XmlBeanDefinitionReader(ctx);
xmlReader.loadBeanDefinitions(new ClassPathResource("modelContext.xml"));
xmlReader.loadBeanDefinitions(new ClassPathResource("uiContext.xml"));
ctx.refresh();