spring newbie doubt

[jimgardener]

hi
I was trying out spring example in A.Hemrajani's book.
The example creates two application context xml files timex-
servlet.xml,and springtest-applicationcontext.xml both in src/conf
directory and which will be copied to WEB-INF directory during build.

In test code ,this is invoked
new FileSystemXmlApplicationContext("src/conf/springtest-
applicationcontext.xml");

but nowhere in the code, the other xml file ( timex-servlet.xml) is
used like above.Instead the author says,
'Our Spring application context file, timex-servlet.xml, will
automatically be searched for and loaded by Spring for us.'

How does this happen?Can someone explain?

regards,
jim

 

[Graham Cox]

but nowhere in the code, the other xml file ( timex-servlet.xml) is
used like above.Instead the author says,
'Our Spring application context file, timex-servlet.xml, will
automatically be searched for and loaded by Spring for us.'

How does this happen?Can someone explain?

If you read "13.2. The DispatcherServlet" of the Spring Web MVC Manual
(http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/reference/mvc.html) then
this will explain it to you. Essentially, when you configure up a servlet
called "timex" using the DispatcherServlet class then by default it will
use the "timex-servlet.xml" file for it's spring configuration. You can
override that if you wish though...