Multiple context files in a non-web app?

[darrinps]

I know how to set up a web based application to use multiple application context files:

<!-- In my web.xml file-->
<context-param>
		<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
		<param-value>
			/WEB-INF/applicationContext-1.xml
			/WEB-INF/applicationContext-2.xml
			/WEB-INF/applicationContext-3.xml
		</param-value>
	</context-param>

How do you do this in a non-web based app (no web.xml file) using a BeanFactory?

Everything seems to be based on a web-app!

Thanks.

[darrinps]

Hold on....think I found it.

String[] configFiles = new String[] { "applicationcontext1.xml",
                                      "applicationcontext2.xml" };
BeanFactory factory = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(configFiles);

[gmazza]

Not the most elegant solution, but this can serve as a placeholder until you get a better answer:

public static void main() {

BeanFactory bean1 = new XmlBeanFactory(new FileSystemResource("config1.xml");

BeanFactory bean2 = new XmlBeanFactory(new FileSystemResource("config2.xml");

Object abc = bean1.getBean(....);
Object bcd = bean2.getBean(....);

}

There is also an XmlBeanFactory two-arg constructor that has capabilities for inheritance. Pro Spring (p. 72) describes it, description probably also available somewhere in the online docs/API.

Glen

[gmazza]

Also, another person gave the below link for a similar question--you can use "import" within your config files as well:

http://static.springframework.org/sp...ory-xml-import

Glen

[darrinps]

I also found this: http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/21665/0/page/3

[gmazza]

Yes, it is nice that Spring allows you to accumulate multiple XML config files together under a single BeanFactory instance.

Glen