Spring configuration files - best practice

I prefer to configure spring with xml files. The question is, how they should be named and where should be located.

The official spring documentation do not provide any recommendation. Here are some with I advocate.

Name consistency

Start all files with the same prefix applicationConfig*.xml

E.g. applicationConfig-security.xml, applicationConfig-hibernate.xml, applicationConfig-quartz.xml etc.

File Location

• JAR -> src/main/resources/META-INF/spring
• WAR -> src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring

Do not use version number in schema reference

Instead of

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd">
  ...
</beans> 

Use this

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">
  ...
</beans> 

Why?

Spring automatically use highest version available from maven dependencies. Upgrade to newer version of spring is much more easy.