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

Here's what I've done for one of my projects. In your web.xml file, you can define the Spring bean files you want your application to use:

  
    contextConfigLocation
    
      /WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml
      /WEB-INF/modelContext.xml
      /WEB-INF/ui.xml
    
  

If this isn't defined in your web.xml, it automatically looks for /WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml