Create SpringMVC project by Maven in Eclipse

I assume that, you have the Eclipse with Maven plugin and run web application with Tomcat server

To create a Spring MVC project by Maven in Eclipse, just follow these steps:

1. Create a sample project by:

Right click on Project Explorer -> New -> Other -> Maven -> Maven Project

Then find and select the "spring-mvc-archetype", as this figure



Then fill the group, artifact, ..., as this figure



Then finish, you will see the project likes this figure:



2. Re-configure project

Remove the package: com.lapth82.springmvc.config, we do not need it
Add applicationContext.xml in WEB-INF
Add springmvc-servlet.xml in WEB-INF
Rename "HomeController" to "SpringMVCController" (not important)

3. Change the content of these files:

The web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"

 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

 <display-name>Spring MVC</display-name>

 <welcome-file-list>

  <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>

 </welcome-file-list>

 <listener>

  <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>

 </listener>

 <servlet>

  <servlet-name>springmvc</servlet-name>

  <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>

  <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>

 </servlet>

 <servlet-mapping>

  <servlet-name>springmvc</servlet-name>

  <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>

 </servlet-mapping>

 <session-config>

  <session-timeout>30</session-timeout>

 </session-config>

</web-app>

The springmvc-servlet.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>



<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"

       xsi:schemaLocation=

       "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd

       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">

 <context:component-scan base-package="com.lapth82.springmvc.controller" />

 <bean id="viewResolver"

  class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">

  <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />

  <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />

 </bean>

</beans>

The applicationContext.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

       xsi:schemaLocation=

       "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">



</beans>

The org.eclipse.wst.common.component:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<project-modules id="moduleCoreId" project-version="1.5.0">

    <wb-module deploy-name="springmvc">

        <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/target/m2e-wtp/web-resources"/>

        <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/webapp" tag="defaultRootSource"/>

        <wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/src/main/java"/>

        <property name="context-root" value="springmvc"/>

        <property name="java-output-path" value="/springmvc/target/classes"/>

    </wb-module>

</project-modules>

4. Deploy SpringMVC project to Tomcat server
Normally, for the first time, we will receive message

SEVERE: Error configuring application listener of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1714) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1559) at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClass(DefaultInstanceManager.java:527) at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClassMaybePrivileged(DefaultInstanceManager.java:509) at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:137) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4733) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5291) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)

To resolve it, right click on the Spring MVC project -> Deployment Assembly -> Add -> Java Buil Path Entries -> Maven Dependencies -> Finish

For the demonstration, please download Source code from my repository on Github