Using multiple XML configurations to inject values

Summary

• Spring also provides developers to use multiple configurations to inject values.
• ClassPathXmlApplicationContext class also takes variable no of arguments as a String array inside its constructor.
• The XML configuration path is separated with comma.

Syntax

application-conf1.xml

`

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

    <bean class="com.multiple.configuration.beans.Programmer" id="programmer">
        <property name="name" value="Sachin"/>
    </bean>

</beans>

`

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application-conf2.xml

`

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

    <bean class="com.multiple.configuration.beans.Laptop" name="laptop">
        <property name="brand" value="Dell"/>
    </bean>

</beans>

`

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Importing multiple XML configurations

ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("/com/multiple/configuration/resources/application-conf1.xml","/com/multiple/configuration/resources/application-conf2.xml");