I am trying to run a Spring MVC application in my local machine through Tomcat, but I am seeing:
NoClassDefFoundError: javax/validation/ValidatorFactory I have validation-api-1.0.0.GA.jar in webapp's lib folder. I am using Tomcat 7. Any guidance would be appreciated.
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected exception parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/validation/ValidatorFactory at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:412) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:334) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:174) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:209) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:180) at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:124) at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:93) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:130) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:537) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:451) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:276) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:197) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4887) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5381) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/validation/ValidatorFactory at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1629) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1559) at org.springframework.web.servlet.config.AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinitionParser.getValidator(AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinitionParser.java:159) at org.springframework.web.servlet.config.AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinitionParser.parse(AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinitionParser.java:106) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandlerSupport.parse(NamespaceHandlerSupport.java:73) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1438) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1428) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:184) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.doRegisterBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:140) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:111) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:493) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:390) ... 23 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.validation.ValidatorFactory at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) Complete set of jar files I am using is
antlr-2.7.6.jar antlr-runtime-3.0.jar aopalliance-1.0.jar asm-3.3.1.jar aspectjrt.jar aspectjweaver-1.6.6.jar cglib-2.2.2.jar commons-beanutils-1.8.0.jar commons-collections-3.2.1.jar commons-digester-2.0.jar commons-lang-2.3.jar commons-logging-1.1.1.jar displaytag-1.2.jar dom.jar dom4j.jar hibernate-validator-4.2.0.Final.jar hibernate-validator-annotation-processor-4.2.0.Final.jar jackson-all-1.8.10.jar jaxp-api.jar jaxp-ri.jar jaxrpc.jar jdom.jar jstl-1.2.jar log4j-1.2.15.jar ojdbc6.jar org.springframework.aop-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar org.springframework.asm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar org.springframework.aspects-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar org.springframework.beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar org.springframework.context-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar org.springframework.context.support-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar org.springframework.core-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar org.springframework.expression-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar org.springframework.jdbc-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar org.springframework.transaction-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar org.springframework.web-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar org.springframework.web.servlet-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar org.springframework.web.struts-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar sax.jar SecurityFilter.jar slf4j-api-1.6.4.jar slf4j-log4j12-1.6.4.jar tiles-api-2.2.2.jar tiles-core-2.2.2.jar tiles-extras-2.2.2.jar tiles-jsp-2.2.2.jar tiles-servlet-2.2.2.jar tiles-servlet-wildcard-2.2.2.jar tiles-template-2.2.2.jar validation-api-1.0.0.GA.jar