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Asked: 2026-05-16T08:37:37+00:00

I have a webapp that uses SpringMVC DispatcherServlet to load a WebApplicationContext. The Spring

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I have a webapp that uses SpringMVC DispatcherServlet to load a WebApplicationContext. The Spring reference documentation says:

“each DispatcherServlet has its own
WebApplicationContext, which inherits
all the beans already defined in the
root WebApplicationContext. These
inherited beans can be overridden in
the servlet-specific scope, and you
can define new scope-specific beans
local to a given servlet instance.

But where do I put this root WebApplicationContext?

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  1. Editorial Team

    We have applicationContext.xml in theWEB-INF directory, and the beans in that config are available to the spring-servlet.xml config, its defined using

    <context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

    By the way its the ContextLoaderListener which is responsible for managing the root context

    <listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
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