Multiple config files

[ultan]

Is there a way to get the visualiser to resolve bean references in multiple config files ?

[robh]

Ultan,

Check out point 3 under Fresh Installation at http://www.springframework.org/spring-ide/eclipse/.

Rob

[ultan]

Thanks...why doesnt this work for the "base" config set - ie all files in the Beans Project ?

[Torsten Juergeleit]

Thanks...why doesnt this work for the "base" config set - ie all files in the Beans Project ?

Spring IDE doesn't know anything about the relationships between the config files of a Spring project. Every config could be used to initialize a single application context. Or some of the config files can be combined to initialize a single application context. Or...

To add this missing information the concept of config sets was introduced in Spring IDE. Within a config set you define a list of config files which are treated as the confguration of a single application context. You can specify the order of config files within this application context to simulate / validate bean overiding.

To make the things more complicated you can add config files from other Spring projects (via external project references) to config sets too ;-)

Cheers,
Torsten

[ultan]

torsten, thanks. Ive already found IDE very useful in helping document my work.

On the config matter - perhaps a doc update would help ? How about detection of contextConfigLocation in web.xml ?

And to veer off topic - how about a generalised admin app outside of eclipse - given some config and a list of jars to find beans in....help ops, admins and application assemblers build valid config....