title: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.expression.ExpressionParser
body: <p>I am total new to Spring, and do not know where I am making a mistake. I am using spring 4.0.2 jars with eclipse and tomcat.</p>
  
  <p>All Jar files:</p>
  
  <pre><code>spring-aop-4.0.2.RELEASE
  spring-beans-4.0.2.RELEASE
  spring-context-4.0.2.RELEASE
  spring-context-support-4.0.2.RELEASE
  spring-core-4.0.2.RELEASE
  spring-jdbc-4.0.2.RELEASE
  spring-jms-4.0.2.RELEASE
  spring-orm-4.0.2.RELEASE
  spring-test-4.0.2.RELEASE
  spring-tx-4.0.2.RELEASE
  spring-web-4.0.2.RELEASE
  spring-webmvc-4.0.2.RELEASE
  commons-logging-1.1.3
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>index.jsp:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
      pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%&gt;
  &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;Insert title here&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
    &lt;h2&gt;Spring Home Page&lt;/h2&gt;
  
    &lt;form name="frmTravel" method="get" action="/SimpleSpringApp/travell"&gt;
      Travel Name : &lt;input type="text" name="tvlName" /&gt;
      &lt;input type="submit" value="Submit"/&gt;
    &lt;/form&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>success.jsp:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
      pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%&gt;
      &lt;%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form"%&gt;
  &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;Travel Success&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;h2&gt;Success Page&lt;/h2&gt;
      &lt;h3&gt;Here need to show the message&lt;/h3&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Web.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0"&gt;
    &lt;display-name&gt;SimpleSpringApp&lt;/display-name&gt;
    &lt;welcome-file-list&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;index.html&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;index.htm&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;index.jsp&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;default.html&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;default.htm&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;default.jsp&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
    &lt;/welcome-file-list&gt;
  
  
    &lt;!-- ddf --&gt;
    &lt;servlet&gt;
        &lt;servlet-name&gt;Travel&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
        &lt;servlet-class&gt;
           org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
        &lt;/servlet-class&gt;
        &lt;load-on-startup&gt;1&lt;/load-on-startup&gt;
     &lt;/servlet&gt;
  
     &lt;servlet-mapping&gt;
        &lt;servlet-name&gt;Travel&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
        &lt;url-pattern&gt;/&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
     &lt;/servlet-mapping&gt;
  
  &lt;/web-app&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Travel-servlet.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
     xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
     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-3.0.xsd
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd"&gt;
  
     &lt;context:component-scan base-package="com.manoj.springprac" /&gt;
  
     &lt;bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"&gt;
        &lt;property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" /&gt;
        &lt;property name="suffix" value=".jsp" /&gt;
     &lt;/bean&gt;
  
  &lt;/beans&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Travel.java:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/**
   * 
   */
  package com.manoj.springprac;
  
  /**
   * @author Manoj
   *
   */
  public class Travel {
  
  
      private String tvlName;
  
      public String getTvlName() {
          return tvlName;
      }
  
      public void setTvlName(String tvlName) {
          this.tvlName = tvlName;
      }
  
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>TravelController.java:</p>
  
  <pre><code>package com.manoj.springprac;
  
  import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
  import org.springframework.ui.ModelMap;
  import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
  import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
  
  @Controller
  public class TravelController  {
  
      @RequestMapping(value = "/travell", method = RequestMethod.GET)
      public String printHello(ModelMap model) {
            model.addAttribute("message", "Hello Spring MVC Framework!");
            return "success";
         }
  
      //Here I want to save the data to database also
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I really do not know where I am missing the configuration, and where the <code>SimpleFormController</code> in spring 4.0.x.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions will be helpful.</p>