problem with a Spring applicaiton finding class org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet (IDE is Eclipse)

Question

I am trying to create a Spring Web application, and I am having trouble calling a servlet from the Spring library. I have the servlet defined in the XML file but at run time it can't find it, I probably am having an issue with the class path somehow. Here is the message I am getting at runtime

Servlet org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet is not available

the above mentioned servelet is a class but I can't seem to get the xml file to point to where its at in my project.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Some ideas:

• Double check that the required Spring jars are declared as "Web App Libraries" ( and get deployed under WEB-INF/lib)
• Check your server logs for the real cause (and post the full stack trace if necessary).