Application Context
An application Context represents the set of configuration files that are used to provide configuration information to the application and is in <Windchill>\codebase\WEB-INF\MVCDispatcher-servlet.xml.
• Imports all the Spring configuration xml files that reside at <Windchill>\codebase\config\mvc\ folder. Any custom configurations should go in <Windchill>\codebase\config\mvc\custom.xml.
• Defines the handler mapping by loading the mappings specified in the properties files at <Windchill>\codebase\config\mvc\. Any custom handler mapping should go in <Windchill>\codebase\config\mvc\custom.properties.
When the web container is initialized, Spring loads the application context and hence to get effect of any configuration changes, you need to restart the server.