Spring application context file location in IntelliJ

In the web.xml you mention contextConfigLocation which mentions the locations and names of the resources which the context reads. This element should contain the path and name of the XML files.

<context-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value> classpath:com/some/path/applicationContext.xml classpath:dbContext.xml </param-value> </context-param> 

Now the dbcontext.xml is directly under the classpath whereas applicationContext is in the classpath in the folder heirarchy com/some/path

When the application gets built, the classess generally go into WEB-INF/classes directory. So if a war is made with above config, dbContext will be under classes dir. Generally, it could be a good idea to create another source folder in your project. Name it something like resources or config and put your configuration files there.

Does this help?

You can keep it in classpath and have the following configuration in web.xml

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

org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener In a maven project we are keeping it inside resources folder.

You can put spring-context file in the same directory where dispatcher-servlet is exist or you can create new directory inside web-inf say spring in that you can put the spring-context file.

suppose you have put the spring-context inside spring directory then you can call it like :

<import resource="spring/spring-context.xml"/> 

in dispatcher-servlet.xml.

look this is my structure of spring application and working great :

still some problem then post me.