Question

I can successfully deploy my project to a webserver, but when deploying to the Eclipse Apache Tomcat Instance, I cannot start my app due to the following error:

SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/orm/hibernate3/HibernateTemplate
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2427)
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1791)
    at org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.doWithMethods(ReflectionUtils.java:429)
    at org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.doWithMethods(ReflectionUtils.java:412)
    ...

I have WTP installed, I have run update configuration, but it’s possible i did not do them in the correct order as one of you out there who have dealt with this problem. I have verified that this class is available under “Maven Dependencies” inside my spring-2.5.5 jar.

Answer 1

Alright, the answer is: check the build path, make sure that a SPECIFIC server runtime is also specified… somehow through my tweaking with wtp and other stuff, i managed to lose my server runtime (probably because i deleted and re-built it).