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Why tomcat is not running the Spring MVC web application?

I get started with a simple web application using the Spring framework and when I trying to run in the IntelliJ, the BUILD is successfull but the app is not getting started, like you see the red lines tell you usually. I get the message provided below:
I have the following web.xml file,
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
version="3.0">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml file is as following:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="rest.mvc"/>
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
<bean id="jspViewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>
</beans>
And, here is my project structure:
This is the code for the test controller:
package rest.mvc;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
/**
* Created by Chaklader on 9/23/16.
*/
#Controller
public class TestController {
#RequestMapping("/test")
public String test(){
return "view";
}
}
What is the issue here and how to solve it?
Note:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<groupId>basic-web-app</groupId>
<artifactId>basic-web-app</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-framework-bom</artifactId>
<version>4.0.5.RELEASE</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.hateoas</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-hateoas</artifactId>
<version>0.12.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<!-- JSON Processing -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Testing Dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
<artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
<version>1.9.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>3.0.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
<artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
<version>0.9.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
<artifactId>json-path-assert</artifactId>
<version>0.9.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Try to use below section for tomcat plugin in pom.xml and see if it works
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<ignorePackaging>true</ignorePackaging>
</configuration>
</plugin>

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.web.context.request.ServletRequestAttributes.<init>

After migrating from Spring 3 to Spring 4, I get the following error when I request a page:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.web.context.request.ServletRequestAttributes.<init>(Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse;)V
I double checked and the method does not seem to exist in Spring 4. I wonder if I messed up some xsd versions in my web.xml or my dispatcher-servlet.xml
Here is my 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"
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>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
</listener-class>
</listener>
</web-app>
dispatcher-servlet.xml:
<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"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.1.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="org.javacms.controllers" />
<mvc:resources mapping="/templates/**" location="/templates/" />
<!-- added to avoid exceptions -->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping" />
<!-- JSTL view resolver -->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix">
<value>/templates/</value>
</property>
<property name="suffix">
<value>.jsp</value>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
And my pom.xml:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>javacms</groupId>
<artifactId>javacms</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>javacms Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<spring.version>4.1.7.RELEASE</spring.version>
<spring-security.version>4.0.1.RELEASE</spring-security.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring security -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring-security.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
<version>${spring-security.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
<version>${spring-security.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- MySQL connector -->
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.36</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>4.3.10.Final</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>WebApp</finalName>
</build>
</project>
Am I missing a dependency or do I have some wrong versions?

This error java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.web.context.request.ServletRequestAttributes.<init>(Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse;)V means that you are using the latest version of spring and you are trying to invoke older version ServletRequestAttributes from Spring 3.
Have a look in javadoc:
Spring 3 - ServletRequestAttributes
Spring 4 - ServletRequestAttributes
My guess Spring 4 uses older version of jar that contains ServletRequestAttributes. Check your libraries and see if there is conflict.
Try add this to pom.xml:
<build>
<finalName>WebApp</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

I solved this version problem by using an apache httpclient's newer 4.5.9 instead of 4.5.6, Maven pom shows an overiding warning.

Maven - Spring RequestMapping 404 Error

I've seen a lot of this questions in SO and i've tried their solutions but they haven't worked for me so I'll post this one. Basically I'm just setting up a project and trying to get my RequestMapping to work, just to return a string. So this is my code
pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>ve.com</groupId>
<artifactId>mavenDWP</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<spring.version>4.1.6.RELEASE</spring.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- Spring -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
<version>1.8.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<!-- CGLIB is required to process #Configuration classes -->
<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Servlet API, JSTL -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp-api</artifactId>
<version>2.3.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jstl</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Jackson -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
<version>2.5.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
<version>2.5.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
<version>1.9.13</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-datatype-hibernate4</artifactId>
<version>2.5.4</version>
</dependency>
<!-- MySQL -->
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.35</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>4.3.10.Final</version>
</dependency>
<!-- JSONDoc -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jsondoc</groupId>
<artifactId>jsondoc-core</artifactId>
<version>1.1.15</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jsondoc</groupId>
<artifactId>jsondoc-springmvc</artifactId>
<version>1.1.15</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jsondoc</groupId>
<artifactId>jsondoc-ui-webjar</artifactId>
<version>1.1.15</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
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" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" version="3.0">
<display-name>AngularSpring</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/api/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
</web-app>
dispatcher-servlet.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
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.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="ve.com" use-default-filters="false">
<context:include-filter type="annotation" expression="org.springframework.stereotype.Controller" />
</context:component-scan>
<mvc:annotation-driven>
<mvc:message-converters>
<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter">
<property name="objectMapper">
<bean class="ve.com.HibernateAwareObjectMapper" />
</property>
</bean>
</mvc:message-converters>
</mvc:annotation-driven>
<bean id="documentationController" class="org.jsondoc.springmvc.controller.JSONDocController">
<constructor-arg name="version" value="1.0"/>
<constructor-arg name="basePath" value="http://localhost:4848/mavenDWP/api"/>
<constructor-arg name="packages">
<list>
<value>ve.com</value>
</list>
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
LinkController
package ve.com.controller;
import org.jsondoc.core.annotation.ApiMethod;
import org.jsondoc.core.annotation.ApiResponseObject;
import org.jsondoc.core.annotation.ApiVersion;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
#Controller
#ApiVersion(since="1.0")
#RequestMapping("/show")
public class LinkController {
#Autowired
private StockService stockService;
#RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value="/hello")
public String showHello() {
return "hello";
}
}
Ok Basically that's my code.. Still i browse to http://localhost:4848/mavenDWP/api/show/hello and i just get a 404 error. Any ideas?

Add #ResponseBody annotation. Every time when you return something that is not a build in class such as ModelAndView you need to use this annotation. See docs.
As an advice, try to use a Map even if you have a little amount of data to send to client. A map will be converted to JSON and can be easily accesed.

All is well, Try jsut to remove the space beteween servlet-class and org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet in the web.xml
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
Good luck

Adding Jackson to POM causes NoClassDefError for JsonProcessingException [duplicate]

This question already has answers here:
Which JAR file contains the JsonProcessingException class?
(2 answers)
Closed 8 years ago.
First off, I apologize for bringing this question up again. The last time was 3 months ago, and I found a stopgap method that kind of worked back then for the proof of concept. Unfortunately, I really need to get this working properly for the full
As part of my current project, I need to be able to serialize objects automatically to and from JSON as requests are sent to and from a Spring server. I've been told to use Jackson for this. The problem is, every time I add Jackson to the POM it will build, but the servlet throws a java.lang.NoClassDefError when it can't find com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException. I've checked though, JsonProcessingException is where it should be expected in the WAR.
My suspicion is that the is causing Spring to try to autowire a Jackson parser for the servlet and it's unable to find all of the dependencies. I have no idea why this is though, as they should be getting pulled in properly by Maven.
My pom.xml with company specifics generalized:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>com.company.department</groupId>
<artifactId>project</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>project-restservice</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>projectMaven Restservice</name>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>project-common</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>project-processor</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>project-ui-service</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.qualcomm.qes.logging</groupId>
<artifactId>project-logger</artifactId>
<scope>compile</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>org.slf4j</artifactId>
<groupId>com.springsource.slf4j.api</groupId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>org.slf4j</artifactId>
<groupId>com.springsource.slf4j.log4j</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.qualcomm.qes.sso.downstream</groupId>
<artifactId>sso-downstream-auth</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
<groupId>bouncycastle</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<!-- SpringSource -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.web.servlet</artifactId>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.core</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.beans</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.context</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.oxm</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
<groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<!-- Other -->
<!-- Jackson JSON Mapper -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- JMS -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
<artifactId>com.springsource.javax.transaction</artifactId>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>com.springsource.javax.servlet</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- TIBCO JMS -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.tibco</groupId>
<artifactId>tibjms</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- TESTS -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<!-- TODO: wants version number -->
<configuration>
<webResources>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<targetPath>WEB-INF</targetPath>
<includes>
<include>**/jboss-classloading.xml</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</webResources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>deploy-war</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>deploy-to-server</id>
<phase>install</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<copy file="${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.war" todir="${project.jboss.home}/standalone/deployments/project.ear/"></copy>
</tasks>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
</project>
My web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/project-restservice-servlet.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>project-restservice</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>project-restservice</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
My servlet context:
<?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"
xmlns:oxm="http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
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
http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm/spring-oxm-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.company.department.project.controller" />
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
<mvc:resources mapping="/html/**" location="/static/html/" />
<mvc:resources mapping="/js/**" location="/static/js/" />
<mvc:resources mapping="/css/**" location="/static/css/" />
<mvc:resources mapping="/images/**" location="/static/images/" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix">
<value>/WEB-INF/pages/</value>
</property>
<property name="suffix">
<value>.jsp</value>
</property>
</bean>
My controller:
#Controller
public class RestServiceWebController extends BaseRestServiceController
{
#Autowired
private SampletableService sampletableService;
#RequestMapping(value="/sample", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public String customerPortal(ModelMap model)
{
return "sample";
}
#RequestMapping(value="/testService", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public #ResponseBody Map<String, String> testMethod()
{
logger.info("In testService");
Map<String,String> testResponse = new HashMap<String, String>();
testResponse.put("1", "2");
testResponse.put("3", "4");
testResponse.put("5", "6");
testResponse.put("7", "8");
testResponse.put("9", "0");
return testResponse;
}
}
Excerpt from the log:
2015-02-19 09:35:56,638 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 54) Context initialization failed: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter#0': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/fasterxml/jackson/core/JsonProcessingException
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:529)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:295)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:292)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:626)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:932)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:479)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:389)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:294)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:112)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.contextListenerStart(StandardContext.java:3339)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3777)
at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.doStart(WebDeploymentService.java:156)
at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.access$000(WebDeploymentService.java:60)
at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService$1.run(WebDeploymentService.java:93)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/fasterxml/jackson/core/JsonProcessingException
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2493)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:1901)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.determineCandidateConstructors(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:230)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.determineConstructorsFromBeanPostProcessors(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:972)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:945)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:487)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveInnerBean(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:271)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:126)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveManagedList(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:353)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:154)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1387)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1128)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
... 22 more
Please let me know if you need any more information.
Edit:
So a little bit of probing and following similar threads, and I managed to trace it to the tag which is autowiring the Jackson bean. Removing that and manually adding a converter like so:
<bean id="jsonMessageConverter" class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter" />
Results in the same error. So at least now I know what's causing it, but the dependencies are there so I'm not sure why it's saying it can't find them.

You miss the Jackson-core.jar. Add it to your pom
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
</dependency>

value from properties file is returning null

I have a variable being set in an external .properties file, but when I try to call the value, it keeps returning null. We have another project that is importing an external .properties file that works just fine, but even using that as a model I can't figure out why this one isn't working. relevent files below.
Specifically what is returning NULL is PropertiesUtil.getProperty("property.file.variable");
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_2_5.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>PROJECT</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Jersey REST Service</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
<param-value>com.bar.foo.rest</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>classpath:applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Jersey REST Service</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<listener>
<listener-class>com.bar.foo.rest.ListenerClass</listener-class>
</listener>
</web-app>
applicationContext.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
<tx:annotation-driven />
<context:annotation-config />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.bar.foo;" />
<context:property-placeholder location="file:${externalConfiguration}" />
<bean id="propertyConfigurer" class="com.bar.foo.utils.PropertiesUtil">
<property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="true" />
<property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="true" />
<property name="locations">
<list>
<value>classpath:PROJECT.properties</value>
<value>file:${externalConfiguration}</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="configProperties"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean">
<property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="true" />
<property name="locations">
<list>
<value>classpath:PROJECT.properties</value>
<value>file:${externalConfiguration}</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>com.bar</groupId>
<artifactId>PROJECT</artifactId>
<version>1.30.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>PROJECT</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<org.springframework-version>3.1.0.RELEASE</org.springframework-version>
<spring.batch.version>3.0.0.RELEASE</spring.batch.version>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<!-- <version>2.3.2</version> -->
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
<compilerArgument>-Xlint:all</compilerArgument>
<showWarnings>true</showWarnings>
<showDeprecation>true</showDeprecation>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
<configuration>
<mainClass>org.test.int1.Main</mainClass>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.16</version>
<configuration>
<argLine>-XX:-UseSplitVerifier</argLine>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<!-- This dependency (version unspecified) is needed at runtime by Tomcat.
I don't know why but I had to add it manually. -->
<dependency>
<groupId>asm</groupId>
<artifactId>asm</artifactId>
<version>3.3.1</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-bundle</artifactId>
<version>1.10</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.jdo</groupId>
<artifactId>jdo2-api</artifactId>
<version>2.3-eb</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
<exclusions>
<!-- Exclude Commons Logging in favor of SLF4j -->
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
<exclusions>
<!-- Exclude Commons Logging in favor of SLF4j -->
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
<exclusions>
<!-- Exclude Commons Logging in favor of SLF4j -->
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
<exclusions>
<!-- Exclude Commons Logging in favor of SLF4j -->
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
PropertiesUtil.java
package com.bar.foo.utils;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Properties;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer;
public class PropertiesUtil extends PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer {
private static Map<String, String> propertiesMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
// Default as in PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer
private int springSystemPropertiesMode = SYSTEM_PROPERTIES_MODE_FALLBACK;
/**
* Workaround: PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer.systemPropertiesMode is not
* directly accessible
*/
#Override
public void setSystemPropertiesMode(int systemPropertiesMode) {
super.setSystemPropertiesMode(systemPropertiesMode);
springSystemPropertiesMode = systemPropertiesMode;
}
#Override
protected void processProperties(ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory, Properties props) {
super.processProperties(beanFactory, props);
for (Object key : props.keySet()) {
String keyStr = key.toString();
String valueStr = resolvePlaceholder(keyStr, props, springSystemPropertiesMode);
propertiesMap.put(keyStr, valueStr);
}
}
public static String getProperty(String name) {
return propertiesMap.get(name);
}
}

Found the solution. Turns out my web.xml setup was wrong. I had already tried the correct syntax, but a bad configuration of my tomcat server caused an error (NoClassDefFoundError: javax.servlet.ServletException) which deploying the project on a different server instance seemed to fix. The correct configuration is below:
Add to web.xml:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>classpath:applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>