EDIT

package eu.etaxonomy.cdm.vaadin;

import javax.servlet.ServletContext;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;

import javax.servlet.ServletRegistration;

import org.springframework.web.WebApplicationInitializer;

import org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener;

import org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext;

import org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet;

public class CdmAppInitializer implements WebApplicationInitializer {

    @Override

    public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException {      

    	//FIXME : This config seems to be identical to the web.xml config, but it does not work

//    	XmlWebApplicationContext appContext = new XmlWebApplicationContext();

//        appContext.setConfigLocation("/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml");        

//        servletContext.addListener(new ContextLoaderListener(appContext));        

//              

//        ServletRegistration.Dynamic dispatcher = servletContext.addServlet("cdm-vaadin", DispatcherServlet.class);        

//        dispatcher.setLoadOnStartup(1);

//        dispatcher.addMapping("/");

    }

}