Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]

Question

Ok, I am 500th user asking this question, I read many answers but still having no luck.

parent module pom contains:

Answer 1

Update: This will create a second context same as in applicationContext.xml

or you can add this code snippet to your web.xml

    spring-dispatcher
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
        
          contextConfigLocation
          classpath:applicationContext.xml
        
    1

instead of

    dispatcher
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
    1