Supporting Spring-WS and Spring MVC integration in a project

Spring WS and Spring MVC provide different front controller implementations as a gateway to the webservice and the MVC functionality respectively. The Dispatcher Servlet used by Spring-WS is :

org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet

and the one used by Spring MVC is :

org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet

To have a combined Spring MVC and Spring-WS project, it is possible to configure these front controllers based on the URI pattern of the request, in the following way:

<servlet>
        <servlet-name>member-ws</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>classpath:/META-INF/spring/applicationContext-ws.xml</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </servlet>
    
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>member-web</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/webmvc-config.xml</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </servlet>    

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>member-ws</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/services/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>member-ws</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.wsdl</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>member-web</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/web/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>    

In this specific instance, all requests to /web/ is handled by the Spring MVC DispatcherServlet whereas all requests to /services is handled by Spring-WS DispatcherServlet. Further, each dispatcher servlet is configured with its custom Spring configuration file, the one for Spring MVC loads up the contollers, the one for Spring WS loads up the Webservice endpoints.

I am not sure if this is a optimal configuration, but it works for me in this project available at: git://github.com/bijukunjummen/memberservice-contractfirst.git


OR An alternate way to hook up DispatcherServlet to handle Spring-WS requests is described here!: http://static.springsource.org/spring-ws/sites/2.0/reference/html/server.html#d4e884