What is the use of ContextLoaderListner in Spring MVC?

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It is used to read and parse the Spring configuration file and process the loading of beans in that configuration file.

Code Example :

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>Spring</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
        org.Springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
    </servlet-class>
      
     <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
      
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>