contextConfigLocation wildcard problem?

[wolfhead]

hi there,

i've got an applicationContext which handles the main logic of my web application. there are several modules all in separate packages and all with their own context files.
now i want to load these contextfiles from the modules and make them accessible to the main application context.
the modules all share the same interface and i want to load them by a manager from the main context with:

appContext.getBeansOfType(IModuleServer.class);

the manager gets the applicationContext with the interface ApplicationContextAware.

so i thought i could load the module contexts this way:

<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml
classpath:de/bmw/grand/modul/**/*-context.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>

but when trying to access the modules, all i get is an empty Map.

so where's my problem?
is there a problem with the wildcard? or are the contexts of the modules loaded, but just not shared?

can anybody help me here?

<edit>: checking some more, the module contexts doesn't get loaded at all. so my problem seems to be the wildcard