Creating the Spring container
After we've configured the DispatcherServlet, the Spring MVC container must be created. The interface org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext is Spring's more advanced container. The implementation of this object manages other objects of the portal application that will be known later as beans. All beans are injected into this container so that the portal will just "fetch" them once they are needed in several transactions.
There are two ways to create a Spring MVC container and these are:
- XML-based configuration
- JavaConfig-based configuration
Spring container configuration using XML
Using our STS IDE, the ApplicationContext (applicationContext.xml) can be created using the Spring Eclipse plugin. Following is the ...
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