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

Question

I included these in the Build Path:

• all Spring libs
• Apache Tomcat 7.0 library

The project still fails during startup:

Answer 1

I also had the same error. I had not added the below dependency in my POM file.

    org.springframework
    spring-web
    4.1.7.RELEASE
  

But My porject used to run even before I had added this dependency. But at one point it stopped and started giving the same above error.

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