Newbie Tapestry/Spring Problem: appContext Null

[texomaleo]

I have a virtually empty applicationContext.xml and web.xml as per the betterpetshop example. In my Home page, I (try to) instantiate the appContext in a finishLoad method via

WebApplicationContext ac = WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(cycle.getRequestContext().getServlet().getServletContext());
if (ac == null)
{
     throw new ApplicationRuntimeException("once again ac is null.");
}

I've tried doing the instantiation in a custom MyEngine as per the spring documentation. The appContext winds up null every time.

Thanks for any help!

[texomaleo]

Solved my own problem.

I needed to have the following in my web.xml (apparently) to load the application context correctly:

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

<listener>
  <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

I also needed to have spring-web.jar in my /WEB-INF/lib. Beans now loading nicely.