dispatcher-servlet.xml and application-context.xml

Question

1. Why do we use dispatcher servlet.xml?
2. Is it something like web.xml?
3. Is application and dispatcher xmls different from each other, are there any similar things which both can do?
4. I have a value, now i need to send it to another class? can i do it via application-context.xml

Answer 1

In addition to Nathans' answer - the dispatcher-servlet.xml defines a child context of the base application context (define in applicationContext.xml)

Child contexts have access to all the beans defined in the parent context, but parents don't have access to beans in the child contexts.