diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring-context.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring-context.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+
+<!--
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+  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
+  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
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+  -->
+<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/>
+  <context:component-scan base-package="org.apache.maven.archiva.web"/>
+
+</beans>
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