[Springframework-developer] Re: Simpler Web MVC Configuration Proposal

[James C. <jim...@do...>]

I'm not sure what I was smoking, but I now realize that I can't expect the
Spring IOC framework to treat my snippet of XML above as it would a normal
BeanFactory configuration. Therefore I have to refactor the configuration to
take on DTD-compliance, or I have to parse the configuration XML as is and
give up the IOC configuration on the controllers. Not a really good
trade-off.

If I break the configuration file into a Spring DTD-compliant file, we are
pretty much back where we started with a verbose configuration file. I'm not
well-versed in Spring enough to know if there is a happy medium whereby the
small configuration can be parsed and beans created that can be subsequently
wired?