Spring 4 has some error in loading Resources from classpath? - spring-mvc

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Added snap of jar i added
This is error im getting
i have added all jars from maven. My POM looks like below (Sorry cant post pom with header as i dont have enough reputation to post links):
<properties>
<org.springframework.version>4.0.6.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
<jdk.version>1.7</jdk.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- Core utilities used by other modules. Define this if you use Spring
Utility APIs (org.springframework.core.*/org.springframework.util.*) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Expression Language (depends on spring-core) Define this if you use
Spring Expression APIs (org.springframework.expression.*) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-expression</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Bean Factory and JavaBeans utilities (depends on spring-core) Define
this if you use Spring Bean APIs (org.springframework.beans.*) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) Framework (depends on spring-core,
spring-beans) Define this if you use Spring AOP APIs (org.springframework.aop.*) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Application Context (depends on spring-core, spring-expression, spring-aop,
spring-beans) This is the central artifact for Spring's Dependency Injection
Container and is generally always defined -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Various Application Context utilities, including EhCache, JavaMail,
Quartz, and Freemarker integration Define this if you need any of these integrations -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Transaction Management Abstraction (depends on spring-core, spring-beans,
spring-aop, spring-context) Define this if you use Spring Transactions or
DAO Exception Hierarchy (org.springframework.transaction.*/org.springframework.dao.*) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- JDBC Data Access Library (depends on spring-core, spring-beans, spring-context,
spring-tx) Define this if you use Spring's JdbcTemplate API (org.springframework.jdbc.*) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Object-to-Relation-Mapping (ORM) integration with Hibernate, JPA,
and iBatis. (depends on spring-core, spring-beans, spring-context, spring-tx)
Define this if you need ORM (org.springframework.orm.*) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Object-to-XML Mapping (OXM) abstraction and integration with JAXB,
JiBX, Castor, XStream, and XML Beans. (depends on spring-core, spring-beans,
spring-context) Define this if you need OXM (org.springframework.oxm.*) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Web application development utilities applicable to both Servlet and
Portlet Environments (depends on spring-core, spring-beans, spring-context)
Define this if you use Spring MVC, or wish to use Struts, JSF, or another
web framework with Spring (org.springframework.web.*) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring MVC for Servlet Environments (depends on spring-core, spring-beans,
spring-context, spring-web) Define this if you use Spring MVC with a Servlet
Container such as Apache Tomcat (org.springframework.web.servlet.*) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring MVC for Portlet Environments (depends on spring-core, spring-beans,
spring-context, spring-web) Define this if you use Spring MVC with a Portlet
Container (org.springframework.web.portlet.*) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc-portlet</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Support for Spring security Define this if you use Spring Security
to secure your web application -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>
<version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Support for testing Spring applications with tools such as JUnit and
TestNG This artifact is generally always defined with a 'test' scope for
the integration testing framework and unit testing stubs -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>4.3.6.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
<version>5.1.1.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate.common</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
<version>4.0.4.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.0-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>4.3.6.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-c3p0</artifactId>
<version>4.3.6.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
<artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
<version>1.1.0.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>1.6.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.logging</groupId>
<artifactId>jboss-logging</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0.CR2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>1.6.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
<version>2.2.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
<version>2.2.7</version>
</dependency>
<!-- <dependency> <groupId>javax.el</groupId> <artifactId>javax.el-api</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version> </dependency> -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
<artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
<version>9.3-1100-jdbc4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax</groupId>
<artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId>
<version>6.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
What could be the cause of error?
Is spring not able to add classpath resource anymore?

Answer 1

Your spring-core dependency is marked as provided (as well as spring-security-core). Such dependencies are not packaged together with the web application and it might lead to NoClassDefFoundError / ClassNotFoundException if you don't have them on shared / server class loader path (which does not even make sense when running embedded Tomcat).
Removing the provided flag should fix your issue.