Spring MVC Beginner’s Guide

The web application context configuration

The web application context configuration file (DispatcherServlet-context.xml) is nothing but a simple Spring bean configuration file. Spring will create beans (objects) for every bean definition mentioned in this file during bootup of our application. If you open this web application context configuration file (/WEB-INF/spring/webcontext/DispatcherServlet-context.xml), you will find some configuration and bean definition as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans ...