web application, configuration files location

[AgostinoX]

Hi; i find quite difficult to find the precise way the configuration file is searched at container startup.
I collect some information that states that the container:
1) searches for a file that has the same name of the class, but what is the actual class name (CoC)?
2) looks for a contextParam with name=contextConfigLocation

Is it right? Do you have more info on point 1?

thanks

[Enrico Pizzi]

If you don't specify contextConfigLocation in web.xml, the listener by default (convention over configuration) will try to bootstrap the application context from a file named applicationContext.xml located directly under the /WEB-INF folder. By specifying the parameter, you choose not to use convention over configuration and can specify a different filename and/or location (you should still choose a place under WEB-INF or a subdirectory, so that your Spring configuration files are not accessible by the client).