Java WAR - Load Spring beans from an external JAR

Question

I would like to load inside my Spring MVC Web Application (packaged as WAR) some Spring framework beans annotated with @Service from an externa

Answer 1

WAR´s appContext.xml and WAR´s web xml are both feasible. If you need to run integration tests based on both localSpringContext.xml and external jar's applicationContext.xml frequently, I recommend the WAR´s appContext.xml approach.

Updated1:

WAR´s appContext.xml:

<import resource="classpath:{classpath}/applicationContext.xml"/>

WAR´s web xml:

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>
        classpath:localSpringContext.xml
        classpath:{classpath}/applicationContext.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>

For example, if your applicationContext.xml is under package :com/gmail/hippoom

you can get it by classpath:com/gmail/hippoom/applicationContext.xml or classpath*:applicationContext.xml with wildcard.