Question

I’m returning to Spring after a long absence and I’m trying to get a simple web app up and running on Tomcat 6.0 with Hibernate as an ORM.

The error I am getting is:

SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet mvc-dispatcher threw exception
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.view.viewAllEnquiries_jsp

It runs through my controller fine:

@Controller
@ComponentScan("com.intl.cigna.ecommerce.dao")

public class EnquiryController {

    @Autowired
    private EnquiryDao enquiryDao;

    @RequestMapping("/viewAllEnquiries")
    public String getAllEnquiries(Model m) {
        List<Enquiry> enqs = enquiryDao.getAllEnquiries();
        m.addAttribute("SEARCH_ENQUIRIES_RESULTS_KEY", enqs);
        return "viewAllEnquiries";
    }   
}

But for some reason it appears not to compile the jsp. As when I rename or delete the jsp it cannot(obviously) find it.

The web.xml for the dispatcher is:

     <servlet>
        <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

I must be missing something obvious…

Answer 1

Make sure you have the all the jstl, servlet and jsp dependencies in your pom/ class path:

        <!-- Servlet -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.5</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
            <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.1</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl</groupId>
            <artifactId>jstl-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.2</version>
        </dependency>       
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
            <artifactId>jstl-impl</artifactId>
            <version>1.2</version>
        </dependency>