spring application contexts

i have a maven project that consist of three modules . model , cor , web . both model and core have their own application contexts , and i want to import them in my web project . i added this part to web.xml :

<context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>
            classpath:applicationContext-*.xml
        </param-value>
    </context-p开发者_高级运维aram>

when i deploy the project on tomcat , spring cant find any of application contexts . i have to note that i dont get any exceptions . but when i copy all application contextes on somewhere like WEB-INF/spring and point contextConfigLocation to it , everything works. what is the problem?

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I would advise another thing. Use <import ... /> in your main applicationContext.xml to import the two additional ones.