Spring context file to configure property placeholder, resource bundles, view resolver and import other configutation files.

spring-mvc-servlet.xml

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.2.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.2.xsd">

	<context:annotation-config />
	<context:component-scan base-package="com.bytestree.*" />
	
	<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:application.properties"/>

	<bean id="messageSource"
		class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
		<property name="basenames">
			<list>
				<value>classpath:messages</value>
			</list>
		</property>
	</bean>

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

	<import resource="classpath*:/spring-security.xml" />
	<import resource="classpath*:/dao-context.xml" />

</beans>

Refer Spring Security 4 with Hibernate for complete example.