[Springframework-developer] wrong order

[Giorgos Z. <gi...@pe...>]

dear list,

i am new to spring framework so please excuse me if my question has an 
obvious answer. here it is:

i have setup a simple we application where my web.xml file defines two 
servlets:

a ContextLoaderServler and a DispatcherServer.

the first one is responsible for loading my 
applicationSpecification.xml. the second one loads its servel-name.xml 
configuration file.

now here comes the problem... in the applicationSpecication.xml file i 
have defined a simple DAO bean (<bean id="beanService"... etc>)

and from the servlet-name.xml i refer to this bean in the definition of 
my Controller:

<bean id="myController" class="myControllerClass">
   <property name="myService"><ref bean="beanService"></property>
</bean>

then i deploy my app into tomcat but the two configuration files insist 
on loading in the wrong order, ie servler-name.xml first, 
applicationConfiguration.xml second which results in the following 
deployment error:

Can't resolve reference to bean 'beanService' while setting property 
'myService' on bean 'myController';

i have tried reading every bit of documentation i could find but i 
didn't seem to see anything relevant. your help will be greatly appreciated.

best regards,
giorgos