diff --git a/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfig.java b/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfig.java
index eaefb0984b..c4d819caa5 100644
--- a/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfig.java
+++ b/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfig.java
@@ -1,15 +1,10 @@
 package org.baeldung.spring;
 
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.ViewResolver;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ViewControllerRegistry;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportResource;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView;
 
-@EnableWebMvc
+@ImportResource("classpath:webMvcConfig.xml")
 @Configuration
 public class ClientWebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {
 
@@ -19,21 +14,4 @@ public class ClientWebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {
 
     // API
 
-    @Override
-    public void addViewControllers(final ViewControllerRegistry registry) {
-        super.addViewControllers(registry);
-
-        registry.addViewController("/sample.html");
-    }
-
-    @Bean
-    public ViewResolver viewResolver() {
-        final InternalResourceViewResolver bean = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
-
-        bean.setViewClass(JstlView.class);
-        bean.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/view/");
-        bean.setSuffix(".jsp");
-
-        return bean;
-    }
 }
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diff --git a/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfigOld.java b/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfigOld.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d621a00106
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfigOld.java
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package org.baeldung.spring;
+
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.web.servlet.ViewResolver;
+import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ViewControllerRegistry;
+import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;
+import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver;
+import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView;
+
+//@EnableWebMvc
+//@Configuration
+public class ClientWebConfigOld extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {
+
+    public ClientWebConfigOld() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+    // API
+
+    @Override
+    public void addViewControllers(final ViewControllerRegistry registry) {
+        super.addViewControllers(registry);
+
+        registry.addViewController("/sample.html");
+    }
+
+    @Bean
+    public ViewResolver viewResolver() {
+        final InternalResourceViewResolver bean = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
+
+        bean.setViewClass(JstlView.class);
+        bean.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/view/");
+        bean.setSuffix(".jsp");
+
+        return bean;
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/resources/webMvcConfig.xml b/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/resources/webMvcConfig.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2a9cccdbe4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/resources/webMvcConfig.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<?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:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
+    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd 
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd">
+
+    <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
+        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/view/" />
+        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
+    </bean>
+
+    <mvc:view-controller path="/sample.html" view-name="sample" />
+
+</beans>
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diff --git a/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml b/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 35dcb9c1ef..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.2.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd">
-
-	<http access-denied-page="/access-denied.html" use-expressions="true">
-		<intercept-url pattern="/access-denied*" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_LOCATION_WRITE','ROLE_POLYGON_WRITE')" />
-		<intercept-url pattern="/admin/**" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_ADMIN')" />
-		<intercept-url pattern="/organization/**" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_ORGANIZATION')" />
-		<intercept-url pattern="/location/edit*" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_LOCATION_WRITE')" />
-		<intercept-url pattern="/location/view*" access="permitAll" />
-
-		<intercept-url pattern="/login*" access="isAnonymous()" />
-		<intercept-url pattern="/register*" access="isAnonymous()" />
-		<intercept-url pattern="/login-denied/**" access="isAnonymous()" />
-
-		<intercept-url pattern="/**" access="permitAll" />
-
-		<form-login login-page='/login.html' default-target-url="/" always-use-default-target="false" authentication-failure-url="/login.html?error=true" />
-
-		<logout />
-
-		<anonymous />
-
-		<session-management invalid-session-url="/">
-			<concurrency-control max-sessions="1" />
-		</session-management>
-	</http>
-
-	<authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager" erase-credentials="false">
-		<authentication-provider ref="restAuthenticationProvider" />
-	</authentication-manager>
-
-</beans:beans>
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