In case I want to read bean definitions from spring-application-context.xml, I would do this in web.xml file.
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.
context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
In case I want to read bean definitions through Java Configuration Class (AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext), I would do this in web.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextClass</param-name>
<param-value>
org.springframework.web.
context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
org.package.MyConfigAnnotatedClass
</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
How do I use both in my application. like reading beans from both configuration xml file and annotated class.
Is there a way to load spring beans in xml file while we are using AppConfigAnnotatedClass to instantiate/use rest of the beans.
