title: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.util.ExpressionEvaluationUtils
body: <p>I just upgraded a Spring MVC application, version <code>3.2</code> to a <code>4.0.2</code> and my view tags are not working anymore.</p>
  
  <p>The error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.util.ExpressionEvaluationUtils
  org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1702)
  org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1547)
  org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.MessageTag.resolveMessage(MessageTag.java:215)
  org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.MessageTag.doStartTagInternal(MessageTag.java:166)
  org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.RequestContextAwareTag.doStartTag(RequestContextAwareTag.java:80)
  org.apache.jsp.views.templates.main_jsp._jspx_meth_spring_005fmessage_005f0(main_jsp.java:570)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The class <strong>ExpressionEvaluationUtils</strong> was deprecated in Spring <code>3.2</code> and removed in <code>4.x.</code></p>
  
  <p>I'm running Tomcat 7.0.50 using Eclipse IDE.</p>
  
  <p>What am i missing here?</p>
  
  <p>Belo are some parts of my configuration.</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;java-version&gt;1.7&lt;/java-version&gt;
      &lt;org.springframework-version&gt;4.0.2.RELEASE&lt;/org.springframework-version&gt;
      &lt;spring-security.version&gt;3.2.1.RELEASE&lt;/spring-security.version&gt;
  &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-context&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;${org.springframework-version}&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;exclusions&gt;
              &lt;!-- Exclude Commons Logging in favor of SLF4j --&gt;
              &lt;exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;groupId&gt;commons-logging&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;artifactId&gt;commons-logging&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;/exclusion&gt;
              &lt;exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-aop&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                  &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;/exclusion&gt;
          &lt;/exclusions&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
       &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-context-support&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;${org.springframework-version}&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;${org.springframework-version}&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-web&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;${org.springframework-version}&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  </code></pre>