I’m using Maven 3.0.3 with the Jetty plugin. I’m getting the error below: java.io.FileNotFoundException:

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I’m using Maven 3.0.3 with the Jetty plugin. I’m getting the error below: java.io.FileNotFoundException:

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I’m using Maven 3.0.3 with the Jetty plugin. I’m getting the error below:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource
[/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml

which I don’t understand, because the file is present at target/mywar/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml. I call this file in my web.xml:

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.4">
    <display-name>/jx-production-1.0-SNAPSHOT</display-name>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>Any ideas what I'm missing? Here is my Jetty plugin definition in my pom.xml …
    <profile>
        <id>jetty</id>
        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>7.2.2.v20101205</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <webAppConfig>
                            <contextPath>/all-new-jx</contextPath>
                            <descriptor>target/jx-1.0-SNAPSHOT/WEB-INF/web.xml</descriptor>
                        </webAppConfig>
                        <jettyConfig>config/jetty7/jetty.xml</jettyConfig>
                        <scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds>
                        <contextHandlers>
                            <contextHandler implementation="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler">
                                <contextPath>/all-new-jx-web</contextPath>
                                <resourceBase>${project.basedir}/target/web</resourceBase>
                                <handler implementation="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ResourceHandler" />
                            </contextHandler>
                        </contextHandlers>
                    </configuration>
                    <dependencies>
                        <dependency>
                            <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
                            <artifactId>jetty-rewrite</artifactId>
                            <version>7.2.2.v20101205</version>
                            <type>jar</type>
                            <scope>runtime</scope>
                        </dependency>
                    </dependencies>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
    </profile>

Here’s the long, nasty error I’m getting:

2011-08-04 14:08:56.677:WARN::Failed startup of context
o.m.j.p.JettyWebAppContext{/all-new-jx,file:/Users/davea/Documents/workspace/NissanUSA2/Technology/nna/mycousa/jx/src/main/webapp/},file:/Users/davea/Documents/workspace/NissanUSA2/Technology/nna/mycousa/jx/src/main/webapp/
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException:
IOException parsing XML document from ServletContext resource
[/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]; nested exception is
java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource
[/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml] at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java:641)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.startContext(ServletContextHandler.java:228)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1181)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:584)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:496)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:55)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:226)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.doStart(ContextHandlerCollection.java:164)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:55)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:226)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:55)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:93)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:55)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:93)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:243) at
org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:55)
at
org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:319) at
org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156) at
org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537) at
org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196) at
org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141) at
org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352)
Caused by:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml] at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java:641)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.startContext(ServletContextHandler.java:228)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1181)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:584)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:496)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:55)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:226)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.doStart(ContextHandlerCollection.java:164)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:55)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:226)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:55)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:93)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:55)
at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:93)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:243) at
org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:55)
at
org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:319) at
org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156) at
org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537) at
org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196) at
org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141) at
org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352)

Thanks for your advice.

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-24T11:18:47+00:00

I assume you’re using the run goal–i.e. mvn jetty:run? That runs a webapp “in place”, meaning it looks for classes in target/classes or in your project dependencies, and it loads web resources from src/main/webapp (assuming default directory layout). It won’t find anything in target/mywar/.... You could use one of the other jetty plugin goals, but I’d recommend just moving your applicationContext.xml into the classpath and using classpath:/applicationContext.xml as your contextConfigLocation.

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