Import:- The import statement can be used to import the another bean configuration file in the existing bean configuration file.

It is used to import more than one bean configuration file from different sources.

The following example can be shown below:

Teacher.java

    package com.chandan;

public class Teacher {
    private String name;
    private int id;
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }
    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }
    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

}

app-context1.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

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

   <context:annotation-config/>

    <bean id="teach" class="com.chandan.Teacher">
        <property name="id" value="100001"></property>
        <property name="name" value="Chandan Singh"></property>
    </bean>


</beans>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

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

   <context:annotation-config/>


    <import resource="app-context1.xml" />

</beans>

App.java

package com.app;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
import com.chandan.Teacher;


public class App {

    /**
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        ApplicationContext ctx=new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[]{"app-context.xml"});

        Teacher teach=(Teacher)ctx.getBean("teach");
        System.out.println("Id:="+teach.getId());
        System.out.println("Name:="+teach.getName());

    }

}

here we can import the app-context1.xml file in app-context.xml and to get the bean information from app-context1.xml file.