'Aggregating' an ApplicationContext

[sinclair.bain]

Hi !
Is it possible to do the following or must each sub-context be explicitly added to the constructor arg list ?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans 
			PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" 
			"http&#58;//www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
<beans >

	<!-- define an aggregate application context -->
	<bean id="my.layer.context" class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext">
		<constructor-arg>
			<list>
				<value>a/b/c/**/applicationContext.xml</value>
			</list>
		</constructor-arg>
	</bean>
</beans>

Tests have proved unsuccessful (i.e. it cannot be done) however I am just confirming with the community.

Hopefully,

[jbetancourt]

My gut feel is no, can't be done.

Imagine a softlink in one of the subdirectories, and the link points to a pitabyte store; wonder how perf will be impacted.

I'm waiting for 'yes, Spring can do that'. :P

[jbetancourt]

Oops, responded too quick. Seems that since 1.1 rc1 there is an Ant style loading of 'globed' resources.

but only with the psuedo 'classpath:' protocol?

[sinclair.bain]

Looks like this works as you say.

On testing again I got the results I had hoped for !!

Thanks for your help!