applicationContext.xml and <application>-servlet.xml

[pnvsgupta]

Hi,

I am using spring dao template classes for interacting with database. I have defined my datasource in applicationContext.xml and mentioned the same in web.xml as

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

and I got the following error message

org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'jdbcTemplate' is defined
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeanDefinition(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:387)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getMergedLocalBeanDefinition(AbstractBeanFactory.java:968)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:246)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:185)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:164)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:269)

I am able to connect to database, if I put the datasource configuration in my <application>-servlet.xml file. So, this states that my applicationContext.xml is not getting picked up. Did I miss anything?

Thanks,
Gupta

[lumpynose]

Do you also have this in your web.xml?

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

Here's what my web.xml looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app
    id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
        http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
    <display-name>whatever</display-name>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>
            /WEB-INF/config/web-app-context.xml
            /WEB-INF/config/web-app-ldap.xml
        </param-value>
    </context-param>

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

    <listener>
        <listener-class>
            org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener
        </listener-class>
    </listener>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet</servlet-name>

        <servlet-class>
            org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
        </servlet-class>

        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value></param-value>
        </init-param>

        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet</servlet-name>

        <url-pattern>/spring/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

[pnvsgupta]

Its started working after adding listener element in my web.xml.
Thanks for your reply.