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St.Antario
St.Antario

Reputation: 27425

Spring parent container

I came up with the parent/child-container concept. I have the spring's param defined in web.xml file as follows:

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>
        /WEB-INF/applicationContext-site-dao.xml
        /WEB-INF/applicationContext-site-security.xml
        /WEB-INF/applicationContext-mailing.xml
        classpath:**/applicationContext-*.xml
        classpath*:META-INF/applicationContext-*.xml
    </param-value>
</context-param>

Is that configuration is going to create 5 child containers of 1 big parent container?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 482

Answers (1)

Sotirios Delimanolis
Sotirios Delimanolis

Reputation: 280132

Given that your asking about a context-param, I'm going to assume you're asking about the ContextLoaderListener.

The ContextLoaderListener will create a single ConfigurableWebApplicationContext and use its ConfigurableWebApplicationContext#setConfigLocation(String) method to set the configuration location(s), separated by white space.

This is a single Spring container (ApplicationContext). It has no parents.

Spring will then create another WebApplicationContext through the DispatcherServlet which will use the ContextLoaderListener's as a parent.

Upvotes: 1

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