title: Spring Maven - ClassNotFound for DispatcherServlet
body: <p>I am trying to start a web-app with Spring framework, and I am using maven to get the depepndent jars.
  I use Tomcat 7.0.39
  I have configured Eclipse to include all te maven dependencies into the WEB-INF/lib folder. 
  So, in my war, i do see all the jars. But still I get the ClassNotFound Exception for DispatcherServlet. 
  Here is the server log:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SEVERE: Servlet /bookRental threw load() exception
  java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
      at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1713)
      at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1558)
      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)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The following is my pom.xml file : </p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"&gt;
  
    &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;bookRental&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;bookRental&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;0.1&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;packaging&gt;war&lt;/packaging&gt;
    &lt;name&gt;bookRental&lt;/name&gt;
    &lt;description&gt;an e-rental zone to share books&lt;/description&gt;
  
    &lt;dependencies&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-context&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;4.0.0.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-core&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;4.0.0.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-web&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;4.0.0.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-webmvc&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;4.0.0.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-beans&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;4.0.0.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
      &lt;dependency&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;junit&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;junit&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;version&gt;4.11&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
    &lt;dependency&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;servlet-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;2.5&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt;
    &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
    &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  
    &lt;build&gt;   
      &lt;sourceDirectory&gt;src&lt;/sourceDirectory&gt;
      &lt;testSourceDirectory&gt;test&lt;/testSourceDirectory&gt;
  
      &lt;plugins&gt;
  
        &lt;plugin&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.codehaus.mojo&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;tomcat-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
           &lt;configuration&gt;
              &lt;url&gt;http://localhost:8080/manager/text&lt;/url&gt;
              &lt;server&gt;mytomcat&lt;/server&gt;
          &lt;/configuration&gt;
       &lt;/plugin&gt;
  
        &lt;plugin&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-compiler-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;3.1&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;configuration&gt;
            &lt;source&gt;1.7&lt;/source&gt;
            &lt;target&gt;1.7&lt;/target&gt;
          &lt;/configuration&gt;
        &lt;/plugin&gt;
        &lt;plugin&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-war-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;2.3&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;configuration&gt;
            &lt;warSourceDirectory&gt;WebContent&lt;/warSourceDirectory&gt;
            &lt;failOnMissingWebXml&gt;false&lt;/failOnMissingWebXml&gt;
          &lt;/configuration&gt;
        &lt;/plugin&gt;
      &lt;/plugins&gt;
    &lt;/build&gt;
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>