BeanFactory not initialized or already closed - call 'refresh' before accessing beans

Question

I\'m trying to add spring security to a regular JSF application. After repeated tries and I\'m failing with the following error on tomcat bring-up.

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Answer 1

While removing the comments from a particular block in applicationcontext.xml, I missed out to remove --> "The end of comment". I didn't notice it and was as getting this error.

Later removed it and all was working fine!!