Why is it that if i declare a configuration file (my-spring.xml) as shown below the application does not load it.
If i declare it in the MessageDispatcherServlet then it finds it.
Is the first one not the root context? I thought when i declare the config file in the root context then it is available throughout the application but in the above case it seems to be the other way round.
I took your web.xml as is and it works fine for me. I defined a couple things in my-spring.xml and everything was picked up fine, I just had empty files for the other contexts you have defined. What is making you say it is not being picked up? Is there an exception in your log?