title: Loading spring context in web application after some servlet
body: <p>We need to load the spring application context in our web application <strong>after</strong> one of our servlets is initialized, so I wonder what is the best way to do it? </p>
  
  <p>I know that it's recommended to use the listener in web.xml, but it's obviously not good for us because in this case the context will be loaded before the first servlet. I saw that there was this class - ContextLoaderServet - in Spring 2.5, but it's absent in Spring 3.0. So I guess we should write some dummy servlet ourselves with the sole purpose of loading the context? Is there any better way?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>