<import/> statements in Spring MVC

Question

If I have a statement in my servlet.xml like this:

<import resource="classes/com/au/curtin/example.xml/>

and an example.xml at that directory location that has Spring bean definitions as well as things like <component:context-scan/> and <tx:annotation-driven/> . Are these statements imported along with the bean definitions into the servlet.xml context or do I need to include duplicate <component:context-scan/> in my servlet.xml file?

Answer 1

The main purpose of import is to avoid duplication. With import the file is completely imported.Everything including bean defination and other configurations are copied.