How to reference a appcontext bean from xxx-servlet.xml ????

[Kesasar]

Hi,

In my staterkit-servlet.xml I have besides Dispatcher....
a bean wich reference a facade which is declared in my applicationcontext.

in my starterkit-servlet.xml :
<bean name="mainview.htm" class="myPackage.MainViewController">
<property name="facade">
<ref parent="starterkitFacade"/></property>
</bean>

in my application context.xml I have
<bean id="starterkitFacade" class="myPackage.StarterKitImpl">
(some properties binding DAO goes here)
</bean>

in my web.xml
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoade rListener</listener-class>
</listener>

and

<servlet>
<servlet-name>starterkit</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherSe rvlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

So I load DAO information in my application context and I can't access beans declared there from the servlet point of view

On starting I have this error
Error creating bean with name 'mainview.htm' defined in resource [/WEB-INF/starterkit-servlet.xml] of ServletContext: Can't resolve reference to bean 'starterkitFacade' while setting property 'facade'

It can't ref the starterKitFacade coming from applicationContext !!!

What I am doing wrong ???

Thanks for your help

[dwsmith75]

Hi,

in my starterkit-servlet.xml :
<bean name="mainview.htm" class="myPackage.MainViewController">
<property name="facade">
<ref parent="starterkitFacade"/></property>
</bean>

<ref parent="starterkitFacade"/> --> <ref bean="starterkitFacade"/>
or
<ref parent="starterkitFacade"/> --> <ref local="starterkitFacade"/>

[ojolly]

Actually, only the <ref bean="starterkitFacade" /> should work. The version attribute 'local' is only used to point at beans declared in the very same xml file (it enforce this using IDREF xml type).

Olivier

[dadams]

I am having the same problem. In my *-servlet.xml file, I try to reference a bean declared in the applicationContext.xml file and get an error stating the reference can not be resolved. Is there any special way you have to reference a bean that is outside of the *-servlet context? The documentation seems to indicate that the default context will be used as a parent for the web application context. Here is a quote from the Javadoc:

By default, the configuration will be taken from "/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml" for the root context, and "/WEB-INF/test-servlet.xml" for a context with the namespace "test-servlet" (like for a DispatcherServlet instance with the web.xml servlet-name "test"). These config location defaults can be overridden via setConfigLocations, respectively via the "contextConfigLocation" parameters of ContextLoader and FrameworkServlet.

In my particular case, I am setting the "contextConfigLocation" for the DispatcherServlet to include an extra file, but am not overriding the default behavior for the default context. My assumtion is that I will end up with a web application context that merges the files configured in the dispatcher init param and with a parent context that is the default context. Anybody out there have this working? I am using Spring 1.1.1.

Thanks!
Derek Adams

[dadams]

Never mind.. I forgot to add the ContextLoaderListener to my web.xml. :oops: