Question

I have the following in my web.xml:

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>classpath:applicationContext-*.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

I have 2 files:

• applicationContext-web.xml in the WEB-INF next to the web.xml
• applicationContext-service.xml in the myapp-service.jar

When deploying the app, I get a

No matching bean of type [AServiceBean] found for dependency: expected
at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this
dependency.

Seems like the applicationContext-service.xml is not found. If I copy it next to the web.xml, it works fine. I can’t figure out why this happens.

The server is a Tomcat 6.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

EDIT

For clarification: if I use

<param-value>
    classpath:applicationContext-web.xml,
    classpath:applicationContext-service.xml
</param-value>

the app deploys without any issue, so it’s just a matter of finding (or not finding) the applicationContext-service.xml

Answer 1

You need to place your config files into the classpath.

WEB-INF/classess  is the directory you need to place your configuration files
classpath:applicationContext-*.xml will then work

or sth similar to this to keep them in one place

WEB-INF/classes/spring   
classpath:spring/applicationContext-*.xml

applicationContext-service.xml : You dont need to copy this one if it is already in the jar file

---

Sample main-config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-3.0.xsd         
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd">


<import resource="classpath:spring/config1.xml" />
<import resource="classpath:spring/config2.xml" />
.
.
<import resource="classpath:spring/configN.xml" />


</beans>