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

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

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

<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>