title: Cannot run Spring MVC example
body: <p>I'm trying to get to grips with Spring but it's getting quite frustrating considering that after 3 days I still haven't managed to run a simple Hello World! example.</p>
  
  <p>So I downloaded the code from spring's showcase repository (<a href="https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-mvc-showcase" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-mvc-showcase</a>). Next I imported it into Eclipse as a Maven project. Clicked on "run on server" and selected Tomcat7 but all I got was a "404:The requested resource is not available" error.</p>
  
  <p>I also get 2 errors in my pom.xml file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.codehaus.mojo:aspectj-maven-plugin:1.2:compile (execution: default, phase: process-sources)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and</p>
  
  <pre><code>Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.codehaus.mojo:aspectj-maven-plugin:1.2:test-compile (execution: default, phase: process-test-sources)  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong?</p>