Spring MVC - HTTP Status 500 - Servlet.init() for spring servlet threw exception - spring-mvc

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Spring MVC - HTTP Status 500 - Servlet.init() for servlet loginDispacher threw exception
When I am doing CRUD operation using tiles.xml, I am getting the following exception.I am not not able to get where I went wrong.
type Exception report
spring-servlet.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.animo.controller"></context:component-scan>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/pages/main/"></property>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"></property>
</bean>
<bean id="ds" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"></property>
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sunny"></property>
<property name="username" value="root"></property>
<property name="password" value="root"></property>
</bean>
<bean id="jt" class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate">
<property name="dataSource" ref="ds"></property>
</bean>
<bean id="dao" class="com.animo.springjdbc.dao.EmpDao">
<property name="template" ref="jt"></property>
</bean>
</beans>
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 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">
<display-name>SpringMVC</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>home.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<servlet-
class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
EmpDao.java
package com.animo.springjdbc.controller;
import java.util.List;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import com.animo.springjdbc.beans.Emp;
import com.animo.springjdbc.dao.EmpDao;
#Controller
public class EmpController
{
#Autowired
EmpDao dao;
#RequestMapping("/")
public String home(){
return "empform";
}
#RequestMapping("/empform")
public String showform(Model m){
m.addAttribute("command", new Emp());
return "empform";
}
/*It saves object into database. The #ModelAttribute puts request data
* into model object. You need to mention RequestMethod.POST method
* because default request is GET*/
#RequestMapping(value="/save",method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String save(#ModelAttribute("emp") Emp emp){
dao.save(emp);
return "redirect:/viewemp";//will redirect to viewemp request mapping
}
/* It provides list of employees in model object */
#RequestMapping("/viewemp")
public String viewemp(Model m){
List<Emp> list=dao.getEmployees(); `
m.addAttribute("list",list);
return "viewemp";
}
/* It displays object data into form for the given id.
* The #PathVariable puts URL data into variable.*/
#RequestMapping(value="/editemp/{id}")
public String edit(#PathVariable int id, Model m){
Emp emp=dao.getEmpById(id);
m.addAttribute("command",emp);
return "empeditform";
}
/* It updates model object. */
#RequestMapping(value="/editsave",method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String editsave(#ModelAttribute("emp") Emp emp){
System.out.println(dao.update(emp));
return "redirect:/viewemp";
}
/* It deletes record for the given id in URL and redirects to /viewemp */
#RequestMapping(value="/deleteemp/{id}",method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String delete(#PathVariable int id){
dao.delete(id);
return "redirect:/viewemp";
}
}
message Servlet.init() for servlet spring threw exception:
description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it
from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.init() for servlet spring
threw exception
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:504)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:620)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:502)
org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1132)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:684)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1539)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1495)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) root cause
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException:
IOException parsing XML document from ServletContext resource
[/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml]; nested exception is
java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource
[/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml]
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:341)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:174)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:209)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:180)
org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:125)
org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:130)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:537)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:451)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:696)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:662)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:710)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:587)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:526)
org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:169)
javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:504)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:620)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:502)
org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1132)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:684)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1539)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1495)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) root cause
java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource
[/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml]
org.springframework.web.context.support.ServletContextResource.getInputStream(ServletContextResource.java:140)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:328)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:174)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:209)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:180)
org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:125)
org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:130)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:537)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:451)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:696)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:662)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:710)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:587)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:526)
org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:169)
javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:504)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:620)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:502)
org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1132)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:684)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1539)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1495)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) note The full stack trace of the
root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/8.0.47 logs.
I tried to solve the error by keeping spring-servlet.xml in views folder under spring folder

Answer 1

Try to change your mysql repository version:
<dependency><groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>/ use version according to your mysql/ </version>
</dependency>