Spring DAO in a web application.

[Rakesh Jhamb]

Hello,

I have already developed standard J2EE web application using Servlets/JSPs. I want to get rid of large DAO classes, hence want to use Spring DAO.

My question...

Where I will have to place my beans.xml and how the container will make sure that Spring is started and inject dependencies inside my objects...I mean from where Spring will be kicked of in a web application as there is no main method.

Thanks.

[Gregg Bolinger]

Add the following to your web.xml

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

Put your context file (beans.xml, etc) under WEB-INF.