Provide servlet 3.0 web fragment to startup application context without web.xml modifications [SPR-7872]

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Tomasz Nurkiewicz opened SPR-7872 and commented

In servlet 3.0 compatible environments it would be nice to have spring-web-fragment*.jar available in repos, containing /META-INF/web-fragment.xml file. This JAR/file would be responsible for starting up web application context. Now web.xml modification is always required. By using dedicated web fragment user would only have to add this JAR to /WEB-INF/lib of WAR. The biggest challenge is to decide how should the minimal applicationContext.xml, shipped with web fragment JAR, look like. See discussion here.

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Affects: 3.0.5

Issue Links:

• Support Servlet 3.0 (JSR-315) [SPR-5587] #10258 Support Servlet 3.0 (JSR-315)

4 votes, 5 watchers

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Chris Winters commented

While doing this it would also be useful to enable construction of an ApplicationContext outside the bounds of a web container, then register the context with the container. I currently have a ServletContextListener to do this, but it will not work with Spring MVC in 3.0.

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Stevo Slavić commented

"Fix version" is invalid for current resolution status.