java.lang.classnotfoundexception org.springframework.web.servlet.dispatcherservlet

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I am trying to run a sample Spring MVC application with the following resources

IDE : eclipse(indigo) Server : Tomcat7 Build Tool : No build tool (Trying to run manually)

and it is giving me the following exception:

**INFO: Marking servlet spring as unavailable
16 May, 2014 12:23:20 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext loadOnStartup
SEVERE: Servlet /Spring3MVC threw load() exception
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
    at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1720)
    at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1571)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClass(DefaultInstanceManager.java:529)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClassMaybePrivileged(DefaultInstanceManager.java:511)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:139)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1148)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1087)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5210)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5493)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)**

Please help me in resolving this issue.

I am posting my web.xml and spring configuration file below:

Web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">

    <display-name>ShopManagement</display-name>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>    
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
            org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
        </servlet-class>             
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Spring Configuration file:

<?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: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:component-scan
        base-package="shop.mgmt.web" />



    <bean id="viewResolver"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
        <property name="viewClass"
            value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    </bean>


    <!-- <bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
        <property name="basename" value="/WEB-INF/message" />
        <property name="cacheSeconds" value="3000" />
    </bean> -->
</beans>

I have all the jars related to Spring MVC in WEB-INF\lib folder and also in build path.

please help me in resolving this.

Pham Thai Thinh · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-20 05:31:26Z

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In Eclipse IDE right click on project choose properties, choose Deployment Assembly make sure source and deploy path right, also any libs that you use out side web/inf must be deploy in WEB-INF/lib. After that try clean project and clean tomcat server and publish web application again. Check this post hope it can help you eclipse web application and maven dependency issues

edited May 20, 2014 at 5:31

answered May 15, 2014 at 19:42

Pham Thai Thinh

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2 Comments

rajeninduk Over a year ago

Hi Pham,Thanks for your response. I am able to check whether my source path is correct or not But how can I check whether my deployment path is correct or not.

rajeninduk Over a year ago

Hi Pham, I am able to resolve this issue. Actually the problem is with the <url-pattern> in web.xml. The url request that I am passing does not match with any url pattern in web.xml. Thanks for supporting me.

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