The application works perfectly with the following config files:

My Web.XML is as follows

```
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/classes/spring/mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>
    /WEB-INF/classes/spring/spring-context.xml,
      /WEB-INF/classes/spring/spring-security.xml
    </param-value>
</context-param>

<!-- Spring Security -->
<filter>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

```

My mvc-dispatcher-servlet

```
<bean
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
    <property name="prefix">
        <value>/pages/</value>
    </property>
    <property name="suffix">
        <value>.jsp</value>
    </property>
</bean>

<context:component-scan base-package="biz.canisrigel.slapMe" />

<!-- enable autowire -->
<context:annotation-config />

```

My spring-context.xml is 

```
<bean
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
    <property name="prefix">
        <value>/pages/</value>
    </property>
    <property name="suffix">
        <value>.jsp</value>
    </property>
</bean>

<context:component-scan base-package="biz.canisrigel.slapMe" />

<!-- enable autowire -->
<context:annotation-config />

<bean id="dataSource"
    class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
    <property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
    <property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/slapMe" />
    <property name="username" value="root" />
    <property name="password" value="adminadmin" />
</bean>

<bean id="sqlSessionFactory" class="org.mybatis.spring.SqlSessionFactoryBean">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
    <property name="typeAliasesPackage" value="biz.canisrigel.slapMe.bean" />
</bean>

<!-- scan for mappers and let them be autowired -->
<bean class="org.mybatis.spring.mapper.MapperScannerConfigurer">
    <property name="basePackage" value="biz.canisrigel.slapMe.mapper" />
</bean>

```

I couldn't run spring security properly cause earlier spring-context.xml was the xml config file for dispatcher servlet for MVC. So I moved spring-context to contextConfigLocation. But then I had to provide something to dispatcher servlet.

My problem is that mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml and spring-context is having same data. If I remove mvc-dispatcher its an error. If I don't place the contents of mvc-dispatcher in spring context then also error occurs.

Where am I going wrong in my understanding of concepts.