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Naymesh Mistry
Naymesh Mistry

Reputation: 946

How to do Spring context initialisation from a dependency library within a web application?

I have a web application which uses Spring. Bean definitions and spring configuration for the web application are declared in webapp-spring.xml. This web application uses a library as its dependency. Let us say the library is called data-access.jar. This library is on the web application's classpath. The web application is configured to initialise spring context by the usual web.xml configuration:

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>classpath*:webapp-spring.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

The data-access.jar library also has its own spring beans xml definition data-access-spring.xml embedded within it (directly at the root level) for its internal use of Spring dependency injection.

When the web application context initialisation happens on starting the container (Tomcat), I would like Spring to initialise context using data-access-spring.xml along with web-app-spring.xml. How do I do this?

I tried following which didn't work:

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>classpath*:web-app-spring.xml,classpath*:data-access-spring.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

Spring silently ignores data-access-spring.xml and only initialises the bean definitions from web-app-spring.xml.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 930

Answers (1)

Emerson Farrugia
Emerson Farrugia

Reputation: 11363

classpath*: will basically ignore files which don't match the pattern. But your syntax is correct. So it looks like data-access-spring.xml isn't being found. Are you sure it's at the root?

You could also use patterns, btw, e.g. classpath*:*-spring.xml, but that shouldn't help you here. classpath*:web-app-spring.xml,classpath*:**/data-access-spring.xml might if it's not at the root.

Upvotes: 1

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