I am learning Spring MVC and when I am trying to run the html file it gives the error HTTP Status 500 - Servlet.init() for servlet spring-dispatcher threw exception
This is my 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>FirstSpringMVC</display-name> <servlet> <servlet-name>spring-dispatcher</servlet-name> <servlet-class> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet </servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>spring-dispatcher</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> This is my spring-dispatcher-servlet
<?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:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd"> <bean id="HandlerMapping" class = "org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping"/> <bean name = "/welcome.html" class = "com.ankitud.hellocontroller.HelloController"/> <bean id = "viewResolver" class = "org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"> <property name = "prefix"> <value>/WEB-INF/</value> </property> <property name = "suffix"> <value>.jsp</value> </property> </bean> </beans> This is my jsp page
<html> <head> <title>First MVC Application</title> </head> <body> <h1>First MVC Application</h1> <h2>${welcomemessage}</h2> </body> </html> This is my HelloController class
package com.ankitud.hellocontroller; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView; import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.AbstractController; public class HelloController extends AbstractController { @Override protected ModelAndView handleRequestInternal(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception{ ModelAndView modelandview = new ModelAndView("HelloPage"); modelandview.addObject("welcomemessage", "Hi User, welcome to the first Spring MVC application"); return modelandview; } } And this is the exception that I am getting
javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.init() for servlet spring-dispatcher threw exception org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:502) org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79) org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:616) org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:521) org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1096) org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:674) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1500) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1456) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) I am working with Eclipse 4.5.1 , Tomcat 8.0.30 and Spring 4.2.3.