Java – ContextLoaderListener problem while spring is loading up

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When my spring is loading up, it says applicationContext.xml is not found in the classpath by throwing FileNotFoundException as can be seen below. Please help me resolve this problem.

my web.xml content is as follows,

<?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/Context.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>flex</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
            org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
        </servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>/WEB-INF/web-spring-context.xml</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <listener>
        <listener-class>
            org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
        </listener-class>
    </listener>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>flex</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/messagebroker/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

The exception being thrown is as follows,

SEVERE: Exception sending context
initialized event to listener instance
of class
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException:
IOException parsing XML document from
class path resource
[applicationContext.xml]; nested
exception is
java.io.FileNotFoundException: class
path resource [applicationContext.xml]
cannot be opened because it does not
exist Caused by:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: class
path resource [applicationContext.xml]
cannot be opened because it does not
exist at
org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource.getInputStream(ClassPathResource.java:135)
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:297)
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:280)
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:131)
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:147)
at
org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:123)
at
org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:91)
at
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:100)
at
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:298)
at
org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:156)
at
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
at
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
at
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3843)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4342)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:926)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:889)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:492)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
at
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native
Method) at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
Nov 12, 2009 4:02:09 PM
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext
log

When I don't want any files to be named applicationContext.xml, why it has to look for it? as it has been clearly stated in web.xml..

Best Answer

Sorry guys, it was due to a simple problem in tomcat.

Long back I was working on a project which was not deleted from tomcat webapp folder. That was spring project too.

I figured it out by commenting out all in web.xml in the current project I am working on. When I did so, it was still trying to load spring container. That's when I opened tomcat manager web application and squinted for the application that wasn't bootstrapped.

I found an application that was not bootstrapped in tomcat manager web application, then I deleted that application, now my application started working like charm...

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