Problem
In a large project structure, the Spring’s bean configuration files are located at different folders for easy maintainability and modular. For example,Spring-Common.xml
in common folder, Spring-Connection.xml
in connection folder,Spring-ModuleA.xml
in ModuleA folder…and etc.
You may load multiple Spring bean configuration files in code :
ApplicationContext context =
new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[] {"Spring-Common.xml",
"Spring-Connection.xml","Spring-ModuleA.xml"});
Or put all spring xml files under project classpath.
project-classpath/Spring-Common.xml
project-classpath/Spring-Connection.xml
project-classpath/Spring-ModuleA.xml
Solution
The above ways are lack of organize and error prone, the better way should be organize all your Spring bean configuration files into a single XML file. For example, create aSpring-All-Module.xml
file, and import the entire Spring bean files like this :
File : Spring-All-Module.xml
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">
<import resource="common/Spring-Common.xml"/>
<import resource="connection/Spring-Connection.xml"/>
<import resource="moduleA/Spring-ModuleA.xml"/>
</beans>
ApplicationContext context =
new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(Spring-All-Module.xml);
Or put this file under project classpath.
project-classpath/Spring-All-Module.xml
In Spring3, the alternative solution is using JavaConfig @Import.