Explaining the boostraping of application context in Spring MVC

[atul khot]

Dear Authors,
This is another one - it is one place (the only place?) where the application context is automatically bootstrapped - and
the application context hierarchy is setup...
It is comparatively easier to know the rationale behind the application context hierarchy - however, it is not clear how
exactly the boot strapping happens...

A nice good, beginners treatment of the topic would be wonderful...

--- thanks atul

[Ashish Sarin]

In getting started with Spring Framework, we haven't explicitly talked about ApplicationContext hierarchies but did emphasize parent-child relationship between root application context (loaded by ContextLoaderListener) and web application context (associated with DispatcherServlet). We'll include a topic on this in the next edition

regards
ashish