Why Template “Spring MVC Project” in “SpringSource Tool Suite” not work with Tomcat?

Question

When Im create Spring MVC Template project in SpringSource Tool and try to Run on the Tomcat server I have this error:

WARN : org.springframework.web.servlet         


        

Answer 1

I was getting the exact same issue and I solved it. Basically, when the Spring MVC Project gets created, Eclipse does not configure src/main/webapp as a source directory by default. It likely needs to be a source directory because then Eclipse will treat the files differently when it builds it.

Right clicking on the 'webapp' folder and clicking 'Build Path -> Use as Source Folder' solved this issue for me. The other comments here are wrong: I did NOT have to change my RequestMapping or servlet url-pattern. '/' for both worked for my 'localhost:8080/test/'.