Can I initialize Spring via Tomcats web xml (../webapps/WEB-INF/web.xml)? - spring

Question

Thanks to the UNUSUAL deployment of Tomcat6 I need to deploy my web app that is using the Spring & Hibernate on a server where access to the WAR deployment's web.xml at /webapps/MyDeployment/WEB-INF/web.xml is not allowed.
So I need to know if such a deployment is even possible, Where we will initialize the spring framework in the serever's web.xml at /webapps/WEB-INF/web.xml and not use the WAR's web.xml ?
Below is the WAR's web.xml that I am currently using at my environment,
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>abcd</display-name>
<!--Here we specify about the DispatcherServlet class in the Web Deployment
Descriptor -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.abcd</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.xyz</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>*.pqr</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Unfortunately changes in the Tomcat configuration is not allowed,
Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

Thank you for all your help, but we ended up solving the problem by asking the server administrator to lift some of the restrictions that had been put regarding file access to the tomcat user.
Now we can access the domain web xml aswell as the server web xml.