Eclipse does not deploy jars into WEB-INF/lib directory

Question

To integrate JSF with Spring I have added these lines in web.xml:

<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>
<listener>  
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>

And I have added all the spring dependencies using Maven, but when I run the project I receive the following error messages:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener

When I took a glance at the folder /WEB-INF/lib I have found no JAR files, although dependencies are declared in the pom.xml.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
    <version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>

I think that the problem that the JAR's are not packaged with the draft. Do you have an idea how to fix it?

Answer 1

Both org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener and org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener are present in the spring-web package, at least on version 2.5 which is the most common.

Also, make sure you're including the following in your pom.xml

    <dependency>
         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
         <version>${your.spring.version}</version>
    </dependency> 

Answer 2

And I have added all the spring dependencies using Maven, but when I run the project I receive the following error messages (...)

How do you run the project? Do you use m2eclipse? How did you create the project? Did you import an existing Maven project into Eclipse?

When I took a glance at the folder /WEB-INF/lib I have found no JAR files, although dependencies are declared in the pom.xml

The dependencies looks fine but... What WEB-INF/lib folder? Where exactly? AFAIK, m2eclipse won't really "deploy" the jars into WEB-INF/lib (but it will create a custom class path including them).

I think that the problem that the JAR's are not packaged with the draft. Do you have an idea how to fix it?

I'm not sure I understood what you mean. What do you get when running mvn install? Does the war look ok? Could you actually show your pom.xml?