Unable to load classpath*:alfresco/extension/*-context.xml

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diegop

I am starting a new project using Alfresco 3.4a (I used Alfresco 2.1 CE for last 2 years…)

So, I am trying to develope a new custom model.

I wrote my-content-model-context.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>
 
<beans>

    <!– Registration of new models –>    
    <bean id="extension.dictionaryBootstrap" parent="dictionaryModelBootstrap" depends-on="dictionaryBootstrap">
        <property name="models">
            <list>
                <value>alfresco/extension/myContentModel.xml</value>
            </list>
        </property>
        <property name="labels">
            <list>
                <value>alfresco/extension/messages/my-content</value>
            </list>
        </property>        
    </bean>
          
</beans>
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and I put my-content-model-context.xml in <TOMCAT_HOME>\shared\classes\alfresco\extension but it doesn't work.

I read this page: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Overriding_Spring_Configuration
so i renamed my-content-model-context.xml in dev-context.xml and it works.

It all so strange…because I found this in <TOMCAT_HOME>\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\application-context.xml:

    
….
    <import resource="classpath*:alfresco/extension/*-context.xml"/>          <— attention for this row!!!!!
    <import resource="classpath*:alfresco/deprecated-context.xml"/>
    <import resource="classpath*:alfresco/extension/dev-context.xml" />

…
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So I suppose that my original file <TOMCAT_HOME>\shared\classes\alfresco\extension\my-content-model-context.xml should be read at Alfresco startup….but it is not so!

So, is there some problem? Did i make some mistake?

I don't like to use one only "anomyous" dev-context.xml file to write all my custom Spring beans, for now i found this workaround: import file my-content-model-context.xml from dev-context.xml.

so this is my final dev-context.xml (for now):

<beans>

    <import resource="classpath*:alfresco/extension/my-content-model-context.xml" />

</beans>
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but I think that it should be automatic lo load each *-context.xml file in extension folder…but it is not so!

thanks in advance

mrogers

Are you using Tomcat 6.   If so have you remembered to add the shared folder to the classpath?