Spring 3 MVC dispatcher xml and applicationContext xml - spring

Question

I am creating a Spring MVC application for the first time.
It seems like when I start up the server, the applicationContext.xml loads the first time even before I run any mvc controller; This is what I want.
BUT once I run a controller that is loaded with context:component-scan in the dispatcher.xml ....IT SEEMS that the applicationContext.xml gets loaded again...
Why is this happening and how do I disable this? I only want my applicationContext.xml to run once.
Right after I run a controller, I see the logs below...
ClassPathXmlA I org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext prepareRefresh Refreshing org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext#65cb65cb: startup date [Tue Feb 15 16:29:21 EST 2011]; root of context hierarchy
XmlBeanDefini I org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]
I think this is also causing my jms DefaultMessageListenerContainer to be created twice...
thanks
xxxdispatcher-servlet.xml
<context:component-scan base-package="com.something.web" />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass"
value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
<mvc:interceptors>
<bean class="com.something.SomeInterceptor" />
</mvc:interceptors>
<mvc:resources mapping="/js/**" location="/js/" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleMappingExceptionResolver">
<property name="exceptionMappings">
<props>
<prop key="java.lang.Exception">common/error</prop>
</props>
</property>
<property name="warnLogCategory" value="abcdefg"/>
</bean>
applicationContext.xml
<bean id="propertyConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="location" value="/WEB-INF/application.properties" />
</bean>
<!-- Local Data Holder -->
<bean id="propertyHolder" class="com.common.PropertyHolder">
<property name="baseURL" value="${url.base}" />
</bean>
<bean id="messageListener" class="com.something.SomeListener" />
<bean id="xxxDAO"
class="com.XXXDAOImpl"
scope="prototype">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSourceQA" />
</bean>
<bean id="xxxServiceTarget" class="com.XXXServiceImpl">
<property name="xxxDAO" ref="xxxDAO"/>
</bean>
<bean id="xxxService" class="org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionProxyFactoryBean">
<property name="transactionManager" ref="txManager"/>
<property name="target" ref="xxxServiceTarget"/>
<property name="transactionAttributes">
<props>
<prop key="*">PROPAGATION_REQUIRED</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<!-- and this is the message listener container -->
<bean id="jmsContainer"
class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer">
<property name="connectionFactory" ref="xxxCF" />
<property name="destination" ref="xxxInboundQueue" />
<property name="messageListener" ref="messageListener" />
</bean>
WEB.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>xxxdispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>xxxdispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<context-param>
<param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/log4j.properties</param-value>
</context-param>
Controller
#Controller
public class XXXController {
#Autowired
private IXXXService xxxService;
#RequestMapping("/xxx")
public String xxxHandler() throws Exception {
return "xxxView";
}

Answer 1

Please remove ContextLoaderListener from your Web.xml I beleive this is the reason why your context is created twice.