Question

I have a working GWT-App Engine web project which works before I added the Spring dependency in the POM. Now when I run the application, this error is thrown (and ultimately App engine won’t load):

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener

I think the problem is that the Spring jars are not copied to the WEB-INF/lib folders as I can’t see those in that folder.

Any ideas how Spring jars will be copied to that folder?

Update:

Here’s the complete POM.xml

Answer 1

Add <packaging>war</packaging>. Currently Maven doesn’t copy any dependencies artifacts into WEB-INF/lib because that’s a default behaviour of jar packaging you used so far for this artifact.