How to access application-context beans in dispatcher-servlet.xml

[Aranya Das]

Hi,

I have defined dao beans in application-context.xml and want to access it in dispatcher-servlet.xml.
Can anyone please guide me how to do that ?

Below are my config files.

web.xml :

<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>classpath:applicationContext-hibernate.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>context</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

application-context.xml :

<bean id="IssueMasterDAOTarget" class="com.ess.dao.IssueMasterDAOImpl">
<property name="sessionFactory"><ref local="sessionFactory"/></property>
</bean>
<bean id="IssueMasterDAO" class="org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionProxyFactoryBean">
<property name="transactionManager"><ref local="transactionManager"/></property>
<property name="target"><ref local="IssueMasterDAOTarget"/></property>
<property name="transactionAttributes">
<props>
<prop key="get*">PROPAGATION_REQUIRED,readOnly</prop>
<prop key="find*">PROPAGATION_REQUIRED,readOnly</prop>
<prop key="load*">PROPAGATION_REQUIRED,readOnly</prop>
<prop key="store*">PROPAGATION_REQUIRED</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>

dispatcher-servlet.xml :

<bean id="issueService" class="com.ess.service.IssueServiceImpl">
<property name="issueMasterDAO"><ref bean="issueMasterDAO"/></property>
</bean>

I get the below error while startup of application

2009-08-19 12:11:16,376 ERROR org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/IssueTracker] - StandardWrapper.Throwable
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'issueService' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'issueMasterDAO' while setting bean property 'issueMasterDAO'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'issueMasterDAO' is defined

Please help and thanks in advance.

[Hong Anderson]

Rename to applicationContext-hibernate.xml.

[Aranya Das]

I did , still the same.

[Hong Anderson]

It should work automatically.
You may try to remove:

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

And put applicationContext.xml in WEB-INF.