Sounds like a good way to go about it.. certainly *-servlet stuff is unneeded for so many testing requirements etc the that src/main/resources "granularity" of spring config files would take on.
Thanks, Roger On Dec 21, 2009, at 9:07 AM, Jim Moore wrote: > As you may have suspected, the answer is "Yes". :-) > > Spring configuration files are meant to be highly modular, so I'll describe > best-practice in general, and then you can see the specifics for this... > > (Caveat at the start: If it's a trivially simple application, then of course > it really doesn't matter. But if it's non-trivial then understanding the > "whys and wherefores" becomes important.) > > One of the principle ways that you separate configuration is between > "application" level objects (services et-al) and infrastructure (eg, > DataSources). Among many other benefits, this allows you to easily re-use > configuration for different environments (Dev vs. Prod, mocked-infrastructure > for testing, shared services, etc). > > In the case of Spring MVC, it makes use of a more "advanced" feature for > firewalling responsibilities: ApplicationContext hierarchies. Because in > good design you want your View layer to know about your Business layer, but > your Business layer to be completely ignorant of the View layer, it creates > the View objects (controllers and the like) in a separate ApplicationContext > that is a child of the AppCtx that has the business objects. (Thus the > distinction between "contextConfigLocation" for the root AppCtx and the > AppCtx created by the Dispatcher servlet that uses the "*-servlet.xml" > convention.) So the objects that you'd put in the root AppCtx would be in > resources/ (the the "classpath:" resource loading prefix) and the objects > you'd put in *-servlet.xml would be in WEB-INF. (With lots more options for > different needs; and that doesn't even start getting into all the power that > going to an OSGi approach gives... ;-) > > Hopefully that explained more than it confused. J > > -Jim Moore > > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Roger Studner <[email protected]> wrote: > If I'm building up a war etc with gradle.. is the proper convention to put > spring XML files in the src/main/resources (what i'm doing now), or in > src/main/webapp/WEB-INF? > > "convention" :) > > Roger > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > >
