Learn Java for Web Development

CHAPTER 5: Building Java Web Applications with Spring Web MVC 229

Listing 5-31. Configuring ContextLoaderListener in web.xml

By default, ContextLoaderListener loads the application context file stored in your WEB-INF directory.
This location can be overridden by defining the contextConfigLocation context parameter in
web.xml, as shown in Listing 5-32.

Listing 5-32. File Locations Using the contextConfigLocation Parameter

At this point, the configuration of WebApplicationContext in web.xml looks like Listing 5-33.

Listing 5-33. Web.xml with ContextLoaderListener and contextConfigLocation

Note ContextLoaderListener by default looks for a /WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml file if

you do not specify a <context-param> named contextConfigLocation.

Now that you know how to configure WebApplicationContext in a web application, we can move on
to the second object, DispatcherServlet, that is configured in the web.xml file.