i am using spring 3.1.0.RELEASE, and my servlet container is tomcat 7 and my IDE is eclipse indigo and the jar spring-webmvc-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar which contains the DispatcherServlet exists in the lib folder, and yet when running the application, i am getting the exception:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1678)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1523)
at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClass(DefaultInstanceManager.java:525)
at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClassMaybePrivileged(DefaultInstanceManager.java:507)
at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:126)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1099)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1043)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4957)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext$3.call(StandardContext.java:5284)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext$3.call(StandardContext.java:5279)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
please advise why i am getting this exception, and how to fix it.
EDIT: following are my configuration files:
1- .springBeans:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beansProjectDescription>
<version>1</version>
<pluginVersion><![CDATA[2.9.0.201203011806-RELEASE]]></pluginVersion>
<configSuffixes>
<configSuffix><![CDATA[xml]]></configSuffix>
</configSuffixes>
<enableImports><![CDATA[false]]></enableImports>
<configs>
<config>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/checkout-servlet.xml</config>
</configs>
<configSets>
</configSets>
</beansProjectDescription>
2- web.xml:
<web-app>
<display-name>Checkout</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>checkout</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>checkout</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.action</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
3- checkout-servlet.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.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.myapp"/>
<bean id="myService" class="com.myapp.MyService"/>
</beans>
also when trying to access any page in the application, i get the exception:
HTTP Status 404 - Servlet checkout is not available
type Status report
message Servlet checkout is not available
description The requested resource (Servlet checkout is not available) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/7.0.22
You need to add the "Maven Dependency" in the Deployment Assembly
Rebuild and deploy again
Note: This is also applicable for non maven project.