I'm starting work on consolidating the Spring configuration files and switching to standard ways of loading and accessing the context XML.
My plan is to create a properties/contexts/ folder that all Spring context XML files reside in. The context files will be loaded by a ContextLoaderListener into a single WebApplicationContext. The WebApplicationContext is then accessible via the WebApplicationContextUtils class which requires a reference to the ServletContext object for loading. The ContextLoaderListener and WebApplicationContextUtils classes are replacing a custom PortalApplicationContextFacade class which loads /properties/beanRefFactory.xml and provides static method accessors to the loaded BeanFactory. The problem is in some places that the PortalApplicationContextFacade is used to access the BeanFactory there is no access to a ServletContext which the WebApplicationContextUtils needs to access the replacement WebApplicationContext. The affected areas are: CError - constructor, loads a IThrowableToElement implementation which defines ways to render certain exceptions PersonDirectory - getPersonAttributeDao, loads the root IPersonAttributeDao for use by other parts of the framework. This method is called from: Authentication, PersonAttributeGroupStore, CPersonAttributes, and PersonDirNameFinder I'm not sure what the best solution for this is. I'd like to avoid as much custom Spring related code as possible but we may still need a static accessor that doesn't require the ServletContext to access the WebApplicationContext object. My one idea right now is to add a custom ServletContextListener that listens for start/stop events and holds a static reference to the ServletContext and internally uses WebApplicationContextUtils to service static request for the WebApplicationContext. This should still deal with the Spring context getting reloaded and the Servlet context getting reloaded. I would also like to make it deprecated from the get-go to discourage usage of this pattern. -Eric
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