Can you have someother.xml file instead of applicationcontext.xml
Yes,always.Spring framework will understand automatically when it will not find applicationcontext.xml
No,never this can happen
Yes,by specifying a <context-param> element named “contextConfigLocation" for the listener class "org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener"
You can use any custom XML configuration file name instead of applicationContext.xml by defining the contextConfigLocation parameter in web.xml for the ContextLoaderListener.