I am trying to run a Spring MVC application in my local machine through Tomcat, but I am seeing:
NoClassDefFoundError: javax/validation/ValidatorFactory
I had the same problem. For 2 months i was trying to find solution.
There was a error i made. I copied hibernate validator jar and pasted it in java installation directory.
Now i was using maven which also downloaded the validator jar.
There where two jars present and so the error arise. The problem was solved accidentally when i reinstalled java in my system.