Hi Tom!

I have no plans to continue loading "beans" from the application context like the JSP example. --More likely I'll be integrating Javaserver Faces with Spring and following the JSF example.

In any event, getting these simple examples to work (made possible by knowledgeable observations/advice from forum members like you) has bettered my understanding of the Spring framework (specifically bean instantiation and application context wrt dependency injection).

--Great to have this forum as a resource to help me through the remainder of my Spring "odyssey".

Thanks again for your help and feedback.

sd