SEVERE: Dispatcher initialization failed Unable to load configuration

Question

I am developing Struts 2 application and after all I am getting following error.

SEVERE: Dispatcher initialization failed
Unable to load configuration. - be         


        

Answer 1

As the exception clearly states,

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: freemarker.cache.TemplateLoader

It is just a simple case of some missing jars ( freemarker in this case ).

If this is the first time you are making a struts application, I suggest you start with the blank struts war. It is a simple deployabe war file that contains all the basic jars and resources/files that are required to deploy and run a struts2 project successfully.

Here is the direct link to the war file.