ContextConfigListener not working

[krishnan.1000]

Hi,

I tried to initialize contextConfigLocation with my listener class. It does not load the applicationContext xml file.

I have set it as follows

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


servlet>
		<servlet-name>crmapp</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>	
		<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>	

<context-param>
		<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
		<param-value>/WEB-INF/config/spring_context/web/applicationcontext.xml</param-value>
	</context-param>

The code looks form crmapp-servlet.xml when I have specified that it should look for applicationcontext.xml. Please help me here.

[titiwangsa]

if i'm not mistaken, the servlet crmapp for class org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet causes the web application to look for crmapp-servlet.xml. this is done if you have the listener or not.
in other words its not related to the contextConfigLocation.
so
basically, i think, your web application would be looking for two xml files.
my sugestion is.
put all the servlet related beans in crmapp-servlet.xml
and all the non servlet related (daos, services) in your
/WEB-INF/config/spring_context/web/applicationcontext.xml

or if you REALLY must have all the beans in one file, just create a dummy blank
crmapp-servlet.xml file.

but i think putting all your beans in one file is bad (unless you have just a few beans), i try to split them up, where applicable.

[Marten Deinum]

You have specified a ContextLoaderListener, that one will load the context files specified under the contextConfigLocation parameter.

The DispatcherServlet will by default look at a file called [servletname]-servlet.xml.

Normally the ContextLoaderListener (or ContextLoaderServlet) is used for loading the generic applicationContext. Normally the place where Services, DAO's etc. are located.

The WebApplicationContext (loaded by the DispatcherServlet) normally contains only those beans which are related to the web part i.e. Controllers, ViewResolvers etc.