Mixing JavaConfig with dispatcherservlet xml

[digid]

I have setup a bunch of beans using java config @Configuration and initialize them with the ContextLoaderListener. However, for reasons irrelevant to this question, I would like to use an xml style for the DispatcherServlet so that i have for instance a dispatch-servlet.xml in my WEB-INF folder. This doesn't seem to work. Can the two styles be mixed?

[Marten Deinum]

There should be nothing preventing you from doing that. You have to either add the @Configuration classes to your xml or use component-scanning to detect them. They aren't automatically added, so you have to do some work.

[digid]

Got it to work. But only after refactoring my packages and @ComponentScan annotations. For some reason if I did a scan on the base package using an includeFilter on @Service and excludeFilter on @Configuration it would still find all my other classes annotated classes(e.g. @Controller, @Repository etc. ) and would blow up. Not sure if this was really what was happening but I did get it to work by reorganizing the ComponentScan.