The IoC container——SpringFrameWork学习笔记

3.2.2.1. Composing XML-based configuration metadata
 
Composing XML-based configuration metadata
<beans>
    <import resource="services.xml"/>
    <import resource="resources/messageSource.xml"/>
    <import resource="/resources/themeSource.xml"/>
    <bean id="bean1" class="..."/>
    <bean id="bean2" class="..."/>
</beans>
 
In this example, external bean definitions are being loaded from 3 files, services.xml, messageSource.xml, and themeSource.xml. All location paths are considered relative to the definition file doing the importing, so services.xml in this case must be in the same directory or classpath location as the file doing the importing, while messageSource.xml and themeSource.xml must be in a resources location below the location of the importing file. As you can see, a leading slash is actually ignored, but given that these are considered relative paths, it is probably better form not to use the slash at all