On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:43:47AM -0700, Kelven Yang wrote: > > > On 4/16/13 1:15 AM, "Prasanna Santhanam" <t...@apache.org> wrote: > > >This is probably a question for the Spring community but I'll ask here > >anyway. Every so often when the componentContext.xml.in changes I find > >that I have to fix up simulatorComponentContext.xml.in similarly to > >make the beans load appropriately and for the bvt tests to work. > > > >Is there a way similar to the components-premium.xml we had before to > >'inherit' Spring contexts so it's easier to maintain the xmls? > > > >-- > >Prasanna., > > Unfortunately, Spring does not provide an out-of-box solution to inherit > between XML configuration files currently, however it provides the feature > to merge several independent context files together. > > What you may do is to have your simulator components in a separated > context XML file and have Spring merge it along with other common context > files (like we did for applicationContext.xml + componentContext.xml). >
Thanks Kelven, I explored the merging of contexts and it might be unsuitable for my case since I have to override some beans of the applicationContext that are required for the simulator. Specifically the SecondaryStorageDiscoverer needs to be overridden by the SimulatorSecondaryStorageDiscoverer. -- Prasanna.,
