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I am trying to create a simple Spring MVC to view main-menu.jsp but I have problem and I do not how to fix it. I am using Intellij and create project by Maven.
Here is my structure of my project
src
- main
- java
- com.example.mvc
- HomeController.java
-resources
- webapp
- WEB-INF
- view
- main-menu.jsp
- applicationContext.xml
- web.xml
My pom.xml
<?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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>Demo</name>
<properties>
<maven.compiler.source>18</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>18</maven.compiler.target>
</properties>
<groupId>org.example</groupId>
<artifactId>Demo</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
<version>6.1.7</version>
<configuration>
<connectors>
<connector implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.nio.SelectChannelConnector">
<port>8888</port>
<maxIdleTime>30000</maxIdleTime>
</connector>
</connectors>
<webAppSourceDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${pom.artifactId}-${pom.version}</webAppSourceDirectory>
<contextPath>/</contextPath>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>5.3.20</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-context -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>5.3.20</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-core -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>5.3.20</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.servlet/javax.servlet-api -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>4.0.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
My web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4"
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">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>DispatcherServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>DispatcherServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
My applicationContext.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:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xmlns:configurator="http://cocoon.apache.org/schema/configurator"
xmlns:avalon="http://cocoon.apache.org/schema/avalon" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.0.xsd
http://cocoon.apache.org/schema/configurator http://cocoon.apache.org/schema/configurator/cocoon-configurator-1.0.1.xsd
http://cocoon.apache.org/schema/avalon http://cocoon.apache.org/schema/avalon/cocoon-avalon-1.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache/spring-cache.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.example.mvc"></context:component-scan>
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<bean id="handlerMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping"/>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/view/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
</beans>
My HomeController.java
package com.example.mvc;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
#Controller
public class HomeController {
#RequestMapping(value = "/hello")
public String getPage(){
return "main-menu";
}
}
Finally, My main-menu.jsp
<%# page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Spring MVC demo</h2>
</body>
</html>
I try to run in Tomcat server in Intellij , And It give me 404 error like this
Error Image
Thank you for helping me fix this

Tomcat 10 does not work with Spring 5 due to the fact that Tomcat 10 is working with jakarta packages, which were renamed from javax.
Spring 5 does not work with jakarta packages, Spring 6 will support that.
So with that in mind:
Spring 5 + Tomcat 9
Spring 6 + Tomcat 10
Also from the picture that you provided your url should be
localhost:8080/spring_war_exploaded/hello
not
localhost:8080/hello
To be sure which URL can be you can go to your Tomcat configuration > Edit > and check "After Launch" and select Google Chrome for an example, that will launch the app with the correct URL.
"Why _war_exploded"
That is mainly how IntelliJ likes to call artifact when creating Artifact > Web Exploaded, so if it is spring it will add _war_exploded, it is a default setting

The directory webapp should be inside main, not in the same parent directory.
As per convention, we place our JSP files in the ${project.basedir}/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp/ directory.
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-jsp#view-resolver-configuration

Try to add this dependency first. It will automatically configure your web application and DispatcherServlet. You do not need your web.xml file anymore. Also, you can delete your webapp package. Everything will be done by Spring Boot.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<version>2.7.0</version>
</dependency>
Then, create a class annotated with #SpringBootApplication. It will start your application, and your #RestController class will be detected and scanned.
#SpringBootApplication
public class RunApp {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(RunApp.class, args);
}
}
Also, you do not need your applicationContext.xml file anymore. Spring Boot takes responsibility for this. Spring Boot creates its own ApplicationContext and contains all the controllers and other beans.
Here, you can learn everything in more detail: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/
Good luck!

Spring MVC and Maven (404 error: Resource )

This my files which I think I configured correctly. My Tomcat 9 application is up and running correctly. I just don't know what it is the problem. Tomcat deploy the application but i'm not sure if the problem relays on Tomcat o Spring MVC
rcontroller.java:
package com.mycompany.myspring;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;
#Controller
#RequestMapping("/")
public class rcontroller {
#ResponseBody
public String getFoosBySimplePath() {
return "Get some Foos";
}
}
dispatch-servlet.xml:
<beans:beans xmlns="https://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:xsi="https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:beans="https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="https://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="https://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc https://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
https://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<!-- DispatcherServlet Context: defines this servlet's request-processing
infrastructure -->
<!-- Enables the Spring MVC #Controller programming model -->
<annotation-driven />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.mycompany.myspring" />
<!-- Resolves views selected for rendering by #Controllers to .jsp resources
in the /WEB-INF/views directory -->
<beans:bean>
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/" />
<beans:property name="suffix" value=".html" />
</beans:bean>
</beans:beans>
web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">
<display-name>spring-mvc-example</display-name>
<!-- Add Spring MVC DispatcherServlet as front controller -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>WEB-INF/dispatch-servlet.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
pom.xml:
<project xmlns="https://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="https://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.mycompany.myspring</groupId>
<artifactId>SpringMVC</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>SpringMVC</name>
<description>Spring MVC Hello World Example</description>
<!-- Add Spring Web and MVC dependencies -->
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>4.3.9.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>4.3.9.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Servlet -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
<artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.6.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName> <!-- added to remove Version from WAR file -->
</build>
</project>
Project structure:

in your folder structure, index.html file is located under the webapp folder. but in the dispatch-servlet.xml file, you set the path as a WEB-INF folder.
<beans:bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/" />
<beans:property name="suffix" value=".html" />
</beans:bean>
hence, move index.html file into WEB-INF folder
then, config the welcome file in the web.xml file as given below,
<display-name>spring-mvc-example</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

Your question is not very clear. What is the exact problem ?
Anyway there are some problems on your dispatch-servlet.xml
1- the rows
<beans:bean>
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
should be
<beans:bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
I.E. you should not close the tag bean before the class declaration and should assign it an id
2- I believe you may have some issues with the namespace beans: . If true the best think you could do is remove the beans: namespace prefix. Follow this answer
The prefix "beans" for element "beans:beans" is not bound
3- contextConfigLocation should be /WEB-INF/dispatch-servlet.xml
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/dispatch-servlet.xml</param-value>
4- In your controller you should map the method you want ot expose with #GetMapping or òRequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.GET)
#GetMapping
#ResponseBody
public String getFoosBySimplePath() {
I suggest also not to map your controller to / but to some subpath

noHandlerFound in Spring small application ? Don't know why

I have created one small basic demo application and trying to print "I am here" on the console through spring MVC application but I have no clue why it is failing almost spend 2 hours on it but luck.
AddController.java:
package com.surajkudale;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
#Controller
public class AddController {
#RequestMapping("/add")
public void add()
{
System.out.println("Hi Suraj Kudaleeeeeeeeee");
}
}
spring-servlet.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: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:annotation-config></context:annotation-config>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.surajkudale"></context:component-scan>
</beans>
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>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>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
</listener-class>
</listener>
</web-app>
index.jsp
<html>
<body>
<form action="add">
<input type="text" name="t1"> <input type="text" name="t2">
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
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>com.surajkudale</groupId>
<artifactId>SpringMVCDemo</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>SpringMVCDemo Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>5.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<!-- The spring-aop module provides an AOP Alliance-compliant aspect-oriented
programming implementation allowing you to define -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version>5.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<!-- The spring-webmvc module (also known as the Web-Servlet module) contains
Spring’s model-view-controller (MVC) and REST Web Services implementation
for web applications -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>5.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<!-- The spring-web module provides basic web-oriented integration features
such as multipart file upload functionality and the initialization of the
IoC container using Servlet listeners and a web-oriented application context -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>5.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>SpringMVCDemo</finalName>
</build>
</project>
Error :
Aug 11, 2018 5:31:59 PM org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound noHandlerFound
WARNING: No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/SpringMVCDemo/add] in DispatcherServlet with name 'spring'
[project strcture][1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/9QPTP.png

Found error after spending my precious hours. never mind.
The root cause is I have created Controller in the wrong folder it should be in java/main/src folder

Error while learning spring

I'm begining to learn Spring and getting an error while doing my first project.
I'm getting the error:
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected exception parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/aop/TargetSource
Here is my web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"
version="3.1">
<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>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>
30
</session-timeout>
</session-config>
spring-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"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.3.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.3.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.3.xsd
">
<context:component-scan base-package="controller" />
<bean
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
<mvc:default-servlet-handler/>
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
my pom.xml:
<?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>
<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>
<artifactId>test</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>test</name>
<properties>
<endorsed.dir>${project.build.directory}/endorsed</endorsed.dir>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>4.3.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version>4.3.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
I have google a lot and tried some answer (added spring-aop, etc...) but they didn't work. I have no idea what I have to do to fix this.

As the error message java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/aop/TargetSource told you, you miss spring-aop in your classpath. Add it as a dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version><your-spring-version></version>
</dependency>

When a library or class is present in compilation-time but not in run-time cause a NoClassDefFoundError. Witch IDE are you using? check in target directory (source compiled) if exits a lib sub directory and contain spring-oap dependency, if you are using intellij idea check if the dependency are added in the war file.
relative path
target/your-project/WEB-INF/lib
check if contains dependencies

After searching for
nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/aop/TargetSource
I found Got java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError while learning Spring framework
Try adding
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version>4.2.1.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
to your pom.xml

<servlet>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<servlet-
class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-
class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
Please check by changing this in web.xml

Spring MVC Annotations

I've been over Spring's documentation a couple times, but I don't seem to be able to get #Controller, etc annotations to work.
I am loading the dependencies and repositories in my POM (... are my specific values):
<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>...</groupId>
<artifactId>...</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>...</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<org.springframework.version>3.0.5.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.context</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.web.servlet</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>com.springsource.repository.bundles.release</id>
<url>http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release/</url>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>com.springsource.repository.bundles.external</id>
<url>http://respoitory.springsource.com/maven/bundles/external</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
</project>
In my web.xml, I am setting up the dispatcher servlet:
<?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">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>DispatcherServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/servlet-context.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>DispatcherServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
And under WEB-INF I have servlet-context.xml (... is my controller package):
<?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"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
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="..." />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<!-- Adds prefix and suffix to returned views -->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>
</beans>
I think I must be missing or forgetting something simple. Eclipse doesn't recognize the annotations and maven fails to build the project. Can anyone help me out here?
EDIT
For further clarification, in eclipse, adding the annotation results in:
The import org.springframework cannot be resolved
And running mvn clean install results in:
package org.springframework.stereotype does not exist
And removing the runtime scope results in the following Maven error:
error reading ...\.m2\repository\org\aopalliance\com.springsource.org.aopalliance\1.0.0\com.springsource.org.aopalliance-1.9.9.jar; error in opening zip file

It may have something to do with what you've set as the scope for the Spring dependencies. You've set them to "runtime", which means they aren't used for compilation and are only needed at runtime. This would explain why it won't compile in Eclipse (and is probably the problem in your Maven build as well, although you didn't specify the error).
Just remove the scope to use the default scope (the default is compile, which is most likely what you want in this case) and see if that gets you any further.
Update:
Thanks for adding the specific error you are getting.
This means Maven is trying to use a local dependency, but can't open the jar file. I've seen this happen sometimes where the jar gets corrupted during the download or only downloads partially.
Try deleting the ~/.m2/repository/org/aopalliance/com.springsource.org.aopalliance/ directory and re-run the build. This will cause Maven to re-download it and hopefully get it in a good state.

I found the answer to my question in a later post.
Basically, I needed to add the m2eclipse plugin to Eclipse. You can find instructions at http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/installing-m2eclipse.html if needed. Once this is installed, you can right click on your project in Eclipse and choose Maven > Enable Dependency Management. Then eclipse will be able to recognize imports from your POM dependencies.
So in the end, I had the following. Eclipse recognized everything, Maven correct built and packaged the project, and Tomcat deployed the project successfully.
Here is my web.xml hooking up the dispatcher servlet:
<?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="CoreProject" version="3.0">
<!-- SERVLET FOR HANDLING ALL INCOMING REQUESTS -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/servlet-context.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<!-- SERVLET MAPPING FOR HANDLING ALL INCOMING REQUESTS -->
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
Here's my servlet-context.xml enabling the annotations and view resolver:
<?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"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
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">
<!-- SCANS ALL MATCHING PACKAGES FOR COMPONENTS -->
<context:component-scan base-package="com.myBasePackage" />
<!-- ALLOWS FOR ANNOTATION MAPPING FOR CONTROLLERS -->
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<!-- ADDS PREFIX AND SUFFIX TO RETURNED VIEWS -->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
</beans>
Here's my POM file:
<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>com.myBasePackage</groupId>
<artifactId>CoreProject</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>CoreProject</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<org.springframework.version>3.0.5.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- SERVLET DEPENDENCIES -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
<artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- SPRING DEPENDENCIES -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- TESTING DEPENDENCIES -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Hope this helps someone else.

Be sure your eclipse cached version of the repo index is up to date, you can even manually update the index by using maven repo view and update it from there.
I always try the vanilla version (command line) of my maven builds, if I get an error from some IDE.

use below and try, annotation handler should be used as below in your application context .xml
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping">
<property name="order" value="0"/>
</bean>
this will resolved stereotype errors
if not worked add below line for xsi:schemaLocation
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd