Configuring the 3T web application

The web application configuration requires several new files that will need to be added to the WEB-INF directory, as shown in the following screenshot. Create these files now:

Note that the beans.xml file was created by NetBeans but is not required for our configuration. Let's now look at each of these files in detail.

The Spring applicationContext.xml file

The applicationContext.xml file configures the Spring container and is very similar to the testingContext.xml file we created in Chapter 5, Testing the DAO Layer with Spring and JUnit. The contents of the file are as follows:

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