关于cxf的一个小问题

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4" 
	xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" 
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
	http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
	<context-param>
		<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
		<param-value>
			       /WEB-INF/classes/applicationContext.xml,
				   /WEB-INF/classes/spring-cxf.xml
		</param-value>
	</context-param>
	
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
  <listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
  <servlet>
  <servlet-name>CxfServlet</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet</servlet-class>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>CxfServlet</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/cxf/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

发布一个cxf 服务为什么一定要在web.xml中配置spring的ContextLoaderListener监听器呢，这个监听器和cxf有什么关系呢？？？难道是这个监听器负责去发布？？？