"marius.bogoevici" wrote : Mike, | | What you need to do is to add a similar contextClass configuration to your DispatcherServlet. There are two application contexts that get created with your Spring application, and in your case you need to deal with both. | | Marius Firstly Marius ... A huge amount of thanks for the quick reply, I really appreciate it. I had pretty much guessed that from this http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/api/org/springframewo... anonymous wrote : A web application can define any number of DispatcherServlets. Each servlet will operate in its own namespace, loading its own application context with mappings, handlers, etc. Only the root application context as loaded by ContextLoaderListener, if any, will be shared. In my defence I did say I was a noob ... what should be added just in case anyone else was up too late last night :-) | <servlet> | <servlet-name>amartus</servlet-name> | <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> | <init-param> | <param-name>contextClass</param-name> | <param-value>org.jboss.spring.factory.VFSXmlWebApplicationContext</param-value> | </init-param> | <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> | </servlet> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4239158#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...