Hi Folks, I've been after this answer for a few days: I've seen many others asking the same question but the answers always lead back to web.xml. Let me explain:
We have an implementation of the business tier as follows:
- Ibatis 2.x with Spring 3.x to provide the DAO services
- Business objects use the DAO's to provide business services (such as addNewAdCampaign(), getAllAds() , etc..)
- Stateless EJB3 beans wrap the business objects and provide a facade to the calling systems
- Calling systems use JNDI to locate the
EJB's and invoke the EJB's methods. The calling systems can be on another machine, on a different app server
The question is how to bootstrap Spring's applicationcontext.xml at the business layer without using
servlet (configured in the web.xml) and without doing it programmatically and share an instance of the application context to all the EJB's and DAO's
Does this make sense what I am getting at? We are providing a business service layer, without servlets, but need to have Spring load so that Ibatis can use it. Currently we are forced to use a servlet to bootstrap the ApplicationContext (configured in web.xml), but we want to eliminate the servlet
The app server is Geronimo - is this a question for the app server people?
Any and all comments are appreciated - perhaps this is not the standard way of doing it.
Thank you very much.
Billy
