Can I have multiple DispatcherServlet instantance.

[Peng Fan]

Hi all,

Can I configure multiple DispatcherServlet instance in a single web.xml, each DispacherServlet instance has their own bean configuration file, since I am going to setup several DispatcherServlet instance to handle request to different module, for eg,

 
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>moduleA</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
    <servlet>
    <servlet-name>moduleB</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>moduleA</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/moduleA/*.htm</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>moduleB</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/moduleB/*.htm</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

and also I have two file under web-inf directory:moduleA-servlet.xml,moduleB-servlet.xml, the content of moduleA-servlet.xml includes following:

<bean name="/moduleA/test.htm" class="test.AnAbstractControllerInModuleA"/>

The problem is when I type following url into IE, I got a 404 error, and I debuged, found request even can't go into handleRequestInternal method:

<a href="http://localhost:7001/awebapp/moduleA/test.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://localhost:7001/awebapp/moduleA/test.htm</a>

Does any one can also tell me the relationship between applicationContext and webApplicationContext, can I share web related beans in applicationContext.xml, if I can, why I got a "can't find handler" when I move the aformentioned

<bean name="/moduleA/test.htm" class="test.AnAbstractControllerInModuleA"/>

into applicationContext.xml from moduleA-servlet.xml.
Thank you very much indeed!!!