This is really more of a Spring question I guess, but I'll ask here first. I want to have all my persistence classes (services and daos) that use ibatis to be bundled in a standalone jar that my war (or possibly multiple wars in an ear) can use. I'm using Spring for mSqlMapClientDaoSupport and all my tests run fine. The architecture is such that I have a service class that can call one or several daos in each method. All of these beans are defined in my application-context.xml.
In my webapp I'm also using Spring but I having difficulty understanding how I set up things so that I can I have an isolated application-context.xml file that loads for my persistence(ibatis) jar and and another application-context.xml file for my webapp. Right now I seem to have to delcare all the beans that my persistence jar is using (services and daos) in my webapp application-xml. Isn't there a way that I could get the beans defined in my persistence jar initialized and then somehow used within my webapp classes? I'm confused how to set this stuff up. Debating about just ditching using Spring for my persistence jar.
