ContextLoaderListener or not?

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In your case, no, there’s no reason to keep the ContextLoaderListener and applicationContext.xml. If your app works fine with just the servlet’s context, that stick with that, it’s simpler.

Yes, the generally-encouraged pattern is to keep non-web stuff in the webapp-level context, but it’s nothing more than a weak convention.

The only compelling reasons to use the webapp-level context are:

  • If you have multiple DispatcherServlet that need to share services
  • If you have legacy/non-Spring servlets that need access to Spring-wired services
  • If you have servlet filters that hook into the webapp-level context (e.g. Spring Security’s DelegatingFilterProxy, OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter, etc)

None of these apply to you, so the extra complexity is unwarranted.

Just be careful when adding background tasks to the servlet’s context, like scheduled tasks, JMS connections, etc. If you forget to add <load-on-startup> to your web.xml, then these tasks won’t be started until the first access of the servlet.

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