Tomcat 7 SEVERE A child container failed during start

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Basically  I ve written a springMVC application  with a relatively shotgun my way first-timer approach with regards to Spring    The project works fine on Tomcat 6  My Tomcat server doesn t start and throws the following exception    Apr 29  2012 3 41 00 PM org apache catalina core AprLifecycleListener init INFO  The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java library path   usr bin jdk1 7 0 03 jre lib amd64 server  usr bin jdk1 7 0 03 jre lib amd64  usr bin jdk1 7 0 03 jre    lib amd64  usr lib jvm java-6-openjdk jre lib amd64 server  usr lib jvm java-6-openjdk jre lib amd64  usr lib jvm java-6-openjdk jre    lib amd64  usr java packages lib amd64  usr lib64  lib64  lib  usr lib Apr 29  2012 3 41 00 PM org apache tomcat util digester SetPropertiesRule begin WARNING   SetPropertiesRule  Server Service Engine Host Context  Setting property  source  to  org eclipse jst j2ee server spring-security-integration  did not find a matching property  Apr 29  2012 3 41 00 PM org apache tomcat util digester SetPropertiesRule begin WARNING   SetPropertiesRule  Server Service Engine Host Context  Setting property  source  to  org eclipse jst jee server Spring3Hibernate  did not find a matching property  Apr 29  2012 3 41 00 PM org apache tomcat util digester SetPropertiesRule begin WARNING   SetPropertiesRule  Server Service Engine Host Context  Setting property  source  to  org eclipse jst jee server assessment  did not find a matching property  Apr 29  2012 3 41 00 PM org apache coyote AbstractProtocol init INFO  Initializing ProtocolHandler   http-bio-8080   Apr 29  2012 3 41 00 PM org apache coyote AbstractProtocol init INFO  Initializing ProtocolHandler   ajp-bio-8009   Apr 29  2012 3 41 00 PM org apache catalina startup Catalina load INFO  Initialization processed in 654 ms Apr 29  2012 3 41 00 PM org apache catalina core StandardService startInternal INFO  Starting service Catalina Apr 29  2012 3 41 00 PM org apache catalina core StandardEngine startInternal INFO  Starting Servlet Engine  Apache Tomcat 7 0 26 Apr 29  2012 3 41 01 PM org apache catalina core ApplicationContext log INFO  Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext INFO   org springframework web context ContextLoader - Root WebApplicationContext  initialization started INFO   org springframework web context support XmlWebApplicationContext - Refreshing Root WebApplicationContext  startup date  Sun Apr 29 15 41 01 BST 2012   root of context hierarchy INFO   org springframework beans factory xml XmlBeanDefinitionReader - Loading XML bean definitions from ServletContext resource   WEB-INF spring root-context xml  INFO   org springframework beans factory support DefaultListableBeanFactory - Pre-instantiating singletons in org springframework beans factory support DefaultListableBeanFactory 3dd5df15  defining beans     root of factory hierarchy INFO   org springframework web context ContextLoader - Root WebApplicationContext  initialization completed in 226 ms Apr 29  2012 3 41 01 PM org apache catalina core ApplicationContext log INFO  Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet  appServlet  INFO   org springframework web servlet DispatcherServlet - FrameworkServlet  appServlet   initialization started INFO   org springframework web context support XmlWebApplicationContext - Refreshing WebApplicationContext for namespace  appServlet-servlet   startup date  Sun Apr 29 15 41 01 BST 2012   parent  Root WebApplicationContext INFO   org springframework beans factory xml XmlBeanDefinitionReader - Loading XML bean definitions from ServletContext resource   WEB-INF spring appServlet servlet-context xml  INFO   org springframework context annotation ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner - JSR-330  javax inject Named  annotation found and supported for component scanning INFO   org springframework beans factory annotation AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor - JSR-330  javax inject Inject  annotation found and supported for autowiring INFO   org springframework beans factory support DefaultListableBeanFactory - Pre-instantiating singletons in org springframework beans factory support DefaultListableBeanFactory cf10596  defining beans  org springframework web servlet mvc method annotation RequestMappingHandlerMapping 0 org springframework format support FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean 0 org springframework web servlet mvc method annotation RequestMappingHandlerAdapter 0 org springframework web servlet handler MappedInterceptor 0 org springframework web servlet mvc method annotation ExceptionHandlerExceptionResolver 0 org springframework web servlet mvc annotation ResponseStatusExceptionResolver 0 org springframework web servlet mvc support DefaultHandlerExceptionResolver 0 org springframework web servlet handler BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping org springframework web servlet mvc HttpRequestHandlerAdapter org springframework web servlet mvc SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter org springframework web servlet resource ResourceHttpRequestHandler 0 org springframework web servlet handler SimpleUrlHandlerMapping 0 org springframework web servlet view InternalResourceViewResolver 0 dataSource sessionFactory homeController userManagementController userService userDao org springframework context annotation internalConfigurationAnnotationProcessor org springframework context annotation internalAutowiredAnnotationProcessor org springframework context annotation internalRequiredAnnotationProcessor org springframework context annotation internalCommonAnnotationProcessor org springframework context annotation internalPersistenceAnnotationProcessor org springframework web servlet view ContentNegotiatingViewResolver 0 org springframework context annotation ConfigurationClassPostProcessor ImportAwareBeanPostProcessor 0   parent  org springframework beans factory support DefaultListableBeanFactory 3dd5df15 INFO   org springframework web servlet mvc method annotation RequestMappingHandlerMapping - Mapped       methods  GET  params    headers    consumes    produces    custom      onto public java lang String org assessme com controller HomeController home java util Locale org springframework ui Model  INFO   org springframework web servlet mvc method annotation RequestMappingHandlerMapping - Mapped     userManagement   methods  GET  params    headers    consumes    produces    custom      onto public java lang Object org assessme com controller UserManagementController home java util Locale org springframework ui Model  INFO   org springframework web servlet mvc method annotation RequestMappingHandlerMapping - Mapped     userManagement getUser  methods  GET  params    headers    consumes    produces    custom      onto public org assessme com entity User org assessme com controller UserManagementController data java util Locale org springframework ui Model  INFO   org springframework web servlet handler SimpleUrlHandlerMapping - Mapped URL path   resources     onto handler  org springframework web servlet resource ResourceHttpRequestHandler 0  INFO   org springframework web servlet DispatcherServlet - FrameworkServlet  appServlet   initialization completed in 1846 ms Apr 29  2012 3 41 03 PM org apache catalina core ContainerBase startInternal SEVERE  A child container failed during start java util concurrent ExecutionException  org apache catalina LifecycleException  Failed to start component  StandardEngine Catalina  StandardHost localhost  StandardContext  Spring3Hibernate       at java util concurrent FutureTask Sync innerGet FutureTask java 252      at java util concurrent FutureTask get FutureTask java 111      at org apache catalina core ContainerBase startInternal ContainerBase java 1128      at org apache catalina core StandardHost startInternal StandardHost java 782      at org apache catalina util LifecycleBase start LifecycleBase java 150      at org apache catalina core ContainerBase StartChild call ContainerBase java 1566      at org apache catalina core ContainerBase StartChild call ContainerBase java 1556      at java util concurrent FutureTask Sync innerRun FutureTask java 334      at java util concurrent FutureTask run FutureTask java 166      at java util concurrent ThreadPoolExecutor runWorker ThreadPoolExecutor java 1110      at java util concurrent ThreadPoolExecutor Worker run ThreadPoolExecutor java 603      at java lang Thread run Thread java 722  Caused by  org apache catalina LifecycleException  Failed to start component  StandardEngine Catalina  StandardHost localhost  StandardContext  Spring3Hibernate       at org apache catalina util LifecycleBase start LifecycleBase java 154          7 more Caused by  org apache tomcat util bcel classfile ClassFormatException  Invalid byte tag in constant pool  60     at org apache tomcat util bcel classfile Constant readConstant Constant java 131      at org apache tomcat util bcel classfile ConstantPool  lt init gt  ConstantPool java 60      at org apache tomcat util bcel classfile ClassParser readConstantPool ClassParser java 209      at org apache tomcat util bcel classfile ClassParser parse ClassParser java 119      at org apache catalina startup ContextConfig processAnnotationsStream ContextConfig java 2032      at org apache catalina startup ContextConfig processAnnotationsJar ContextConfig java 1923      at org apache catalina startup ContextConfig processAnnotationsUrl ContextConfig java 1891      at org apache catalina startup ContextConfig processAnnotations ContextConfig java 1877      at org apache catalina startup ContextConfig webConfig ContextConfig java 1270      at org apache catalina startup ContextConfig configureStart ContextConfig java 855      at org apache catalina startup ContextConfig lifecycleEvent ContextConfig java 345      at org apache catalina util LifecycleSupport fireLifecycleEvent LifecycleSupport java 119      at org apache catalina util LifecycleBase fireLifecycleEvent LifecycleBase java 90      at org apache catalina core StandardContext startInternal StandardContext java 5161      at org apache catalina util LifecycleBase start LifecycleBase java 150          7 more   I m really not sure what this is referring to  I m more than happy to show any code etc but I don t really know what it s referring to   Below is my pom xml just in case that might be of relevance     lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt   lt project xmlns  http   maven apache org POM 4 0 0  xmlns xsi  http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema-instance      xsi schemaLocation  http   maven apache org POM 4 0 0 http   maven apache org maven-v4 0 0 xsd  gt       lt modelVersion gt 4 0 0 lt  modelVersion gt       lt groupId gt org assessme lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt com lt  artifactId gt       lt name gt assessme lt  name gt       lt packaging gt war lt  packaging gt       lt version gt 1 0 0-BUILD-SNAPSHOT lt  version gt       lt properties gt           lt java-version gt 1 6 lt  java-version gt           lt org springframework-version gt 3 1 0 RELEASE lt  org springframework-version gt           lt org aspectj-version gt 1 6 9 lt  org aspectj-version gt           lt org slf4j-version gt 1 5 10 lt  org slf4j-version gt       lt  properties gt       lt dependencies gt           lt  -- Spring -- gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org springframework lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt spring-context lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt   org springframework-version  lt  version gt               lt exclusions gt                    lt  -- Exclude Commons Logging in favor of SLF4j -- gt                   lt exclusion gt                       lt groupId gt commons-logging lt  groupId gt                       lt artifactId gt commons-logging lt  artifactId gt                   lt  exclusion gt               lt  exclusions gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org springframework lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt spring-webmvc lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt   org springframework-version  lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org springframework lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt spring-tx lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt   org springframework-version  lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt            lt  -- AspectJ -- gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org aspectj lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt aspectjrt lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt   org aspectj-version  lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt            lt  -- Logging -- gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org slf4j lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt slf4j-api lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt   org slf4j-version  lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org slf4j lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt jcl-over-slf4j lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt   org slf4j-version  lt  version gt               lt scope gt runtime lt  scope gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org slf4j lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt slf4j-log4j12 lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt   org slf4j-version  lt  version gt               lt scope gt runtime lt  scope gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt log4j lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt log4j lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 1 2 15 lt  version gt               lt exclusions gt                   lt exclusion gt                       lt groupId gt javax mail lt  groupId gt                       lt artifactId gt mail lt  artifactId gt                   lt  exclusion gt                   lt exclusion gt                       lt groupId gt javax jms lt  groupId gt                       lt artifactId gt jms lt  artifactId gt                   lt  exclusion gt                   lt exclusion gt                       lt groupId gt com sun jdmk lt  groupId gt                       lt artifactId gt jmxtools lt  artifactId gt                   lt  exclusion gt                   lt exclusion gt                       lt groupId gt com sun jmx lt  groupId gt                       lt artifactId gt jmxri lt  artifactId gt                   lt  exclusion gt               lt  exclusions gt               lt scope gt runtime lt  scope gt           lt  dependency gt            lt  --  Inject -- gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt javax inject lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt javax inject lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 1 lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt            lt  -- Servlet -- gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt javax servlet lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt servlet-api lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 2 5 lt  version gt               lt scope gt provided lt  scope gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt javax servlet jsp lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt jsp-api lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 2 1 lt  version gt               lt scope gt provided lt  scope gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt javax servlet lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt jstl lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 1 2 lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt            lt  -- Persistence -- gt            lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt commons-dbcp lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt commons-dbcp lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 1 4 lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt             lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org springframework lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt spring-jdbc lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt   org springframework-version  lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt             lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org hibernate lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt hibernate-core lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 3 5 6-Final lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org hibernate lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt hibernate-annotations lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 3 5 6-Final lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt javassist lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt javassist lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 3 11 0 GA lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org springframework lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt spring-orm lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt   org springframework-version  lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt mysql lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt mysql-connector-java lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 5 1 18 lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt             lt  -- Jackson JSON Mapper -- gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org codehaus jackson lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt jackson-mapper-asl lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 1 9 5 lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt            lt  -- Test -- gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt junit lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt junit lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 4 7 lt  version gt               lt scope gt test lt  scope gt           lt  dependency gt       lt  dependencies gt       lt build gt           lt plugins gt               lt plugin gt                   lt artifactId gt maven-eclipse-plugin lt  artifactId gt                   lt version gt 2 9 lt  version gt                   lt configuration gt                       lt additionalProjectnatures gt                           lt projectnature gt org springframework ide eclipse core springnature lt  projectnature gt                       lt  additionalProjectnatures gt                       lt additionalBuildcommands gt                           lt buildcommand gt org springframework ide eclipse core springbuilder lt  buildcommand gt                       lt  additionalBuildcommands gt                       lt downloadSources gt true lt  downloadSources gt                       lt downloadJavadocs gt true lt  downloadJavadocs gt                   lt  configuration gt               lt  plugin gt               lt plugin gt                   lt groupId gt org apache maven plugins lt  groupId gt                   lt artifactId gt maven-compiler-plugin lt  artifactId gt                   lt version gt 2 3 2 lt  version gt                   lt configuration gt                       lt source gt 1 6 lt  source gt                       lt target gt 1 6 lt  target gt                       lt compilerArgument gt -Xlint all lt  compilerArgument gt                       lt showWarnings gt true lt  showWarnings gt                       lt showDeprecation gt true lt  showDeprecation gt                   lt  configuration gt               lt  plugin gt               lt plugin gt                   lt groupId gt org codehaus mojo lt  groupId gt                   lt artifactId gt exec-maven-plugin lt  artifactId gt                   lt version gt 1 2 1 lt  version gt                   lt configuration gt                       lt mainClass gt org test int1 Main lt  mainClass gt                   lt  configuration gt               lt  plugin gt           lt  plugins gt       lt  build gt   lt  project gt    Does anyone have any ideas

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there is no problem with tomcat    I have suffered 4-5 days to resolve the issue  same issue mentioned above   here i was using tomcat 8 5  Finally  the issue got resolved  the issue was with the  Corrupted jar files   You have to delete all your  m2 repository  for me C  Users Bandham m2 repository   den run  mvn clean install  command from your project folder    happy coding   Give one UP if it is solved your problem

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Don t panic  You have you copied the servlet code  Ok    WebServlet   HelloWord   public class HelloWorld extends HttpServlet   private static final long serialVersionUID   1L    You gave the same path  WebServlet   HelloWord   for both servlets with different names   If you create a web xml file  then check the classpath

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This is usually the problem with web xml descriptor file  May be you have mixed up the annotations and web xml servlet description definitions  Please check the console for more information

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When a servlet 3 0 application starts the container has to scan all the classes for annotations  unless metadata-complete true   Tomcat uses a fork  no additions  just unused code removed  of Apache Commons BCEL to do this scanning  The web app is failing to start because BCEL has come across something it doesn t understand   If the applications runs fine on Tomcat 6  adding metadata-complete  true  in your web xml or declaring your application as a 2 5 application in web xml will stop the annotation scanning   At the moment  this looks like a problem in the class being scanned  However  until we know which class is causing the problem and take a closer look we won t know  I ll need to modify Tomcat to log a more useful error message that names the class in question  You can follow progress on this point at  https   issues apache org bugzilla show bug cgi id 53161

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This seems like that the servlet api version which you using is older than the xsd you are using in web xml eg 3 0  use this one      http   java sun com xml ns javaee   id  WebApp ID  version  2 5

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I have same problem but in my case By mistake I added a context in server xml   Tomcat Install Dir conf   and doesn t deployed corresponing war in webapps  Tomcat Install Dir webapps   As I removed that context and restarted tomcat it working fine

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As a generic solution  I recommend that you remove all the secondary dependencies and run the application  if it worked  revert back some  and continue doing the same as long as the application starts  in the end  you will be able to identify which dependency caused the issue   Using the same way  for example  I found that dependencies whose the groupId is  org apache axis2 have caused the issue     lt dependency gt           lt groupId gt org apache axis2 lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt axis2-transport-local lt  artifactId gt           lt version gt 1 6 1 lt  version gt    lt  dependency gt    lt dependency gt           lt groupId gt org apache axis2 lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt axis2-transport-http lt  artifactId gt           lt version gt 1 6 1 lt  version gt    lt  dependency gt

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you can fix it with     lt dependency gt       lt groupId gt javax servlet lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt servlet-api lt  artifactId gt       lt version gt   servlet-api-version  lt  version gt       lt scope gt provided lt  scope gt   lt  dependency gt      provided solves this problem

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I solved a similar problem by updating the web.xml declaration to Servlet 4.0 specification as follows (I use Tomcat 9) :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
                          http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_4_0.xsd"
      version="4.0"
      metadata-complete="true">
      <!-- ... (your content here) ... -->
</web-app>

You can check which servlet version Tomcat supports by refering to the chart on Tomcat's which version page.

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I have faced a similar problem  but it consoles the error like an encoding issue  After changing the IDE encoding  it works fine

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I have the same problem a few months ago. This solve my problem using Maven instead of a downloaded version of Spring and some changes in the web.xml.

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>SpringWEB1</groupId>
  <artifactId>SpringWEB1</artifactId>
  <version>1</version>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <build>
    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.4</version>
        <configuration>
          <warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory>
          <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.1</version>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.7</source>
          <target>1.7</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
        <version>4.1.7.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
        <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.5</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
        <version>1.2</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

Controller.java

package com.jmtm.controller;

import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

@org.springframework.stereotype.Controller
public class Controller {

    @RequestMapping("/hi")
    public ModelAndView hi(){
        return new ModelAndView("Hello", "msg", "Hello user.");
    }

}

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:c="http://www.springframework.org/schema/c"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
    xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
    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-4.1.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.1.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-4.1.xsd">

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.jmtm.controller"></context:component-scan>

    <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="prefix">
            <value>/</value>
        </property>
        <property name="suffix">
            <value>.jsp</value>
        </property>
    </bean>

</beans>

And the most important part of the solution, include the path of the servlet dispatcher (A.K.A. spring-servlet.xml) in the 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>SpringWEB1</display-name>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>

  <servlet>
        <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

Something weird happen when I try to solve this. Any downloaded version of Spring from maven.springframework.org/release/org/springframework/spring gives me a lot of problems (Tomcat couldn't find servlet, Spring stops Tomcat, Eclipse couldn't start the server {weird}) so with many problems find many partial solutions. I hope this works for you.

As an extra help, in Eclipse, download from the Eclipse Marketplace the Spring STS Tool for Eclipse, this will help you to create configuration files (servlet.xml) and write code for the servlet in the web.xml file.

User · Answer

Tomcat Server fails to start and throws the exception because  inside the section Deployment Descriptor MyProyect   Servlet Mappings there are mappings that don  t exist  Delete or correct those elements  then starting the server works without problems

User · Answer

This is what i have been facing for long time.

This happened last time and figured out that one case could be a bad war deployment, which came after i update library/maven dependencies on pom and re installed it.

SOLUTION:

right click on the server >  remove the war and 
right click on the server again > clean
make sure the maven dependencies are added to deployment assembly
right click on the project > Run As > maven clean
right click on the project again > Run As > maven install 
and finally deploy the project on to the server. This helped me to solve the issue

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I recently moved to a new PC all my eclipse projects  I experienced this issue  What i did was    removed the project from tomcat clean tomcat run project in tomcat

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I have seen this exception while tomcat started and it almost took many hours to figure out the reason  Finally I found out that there were some Spring JARs of a lower version in the lib folder in addition to the Spring jars in the Maven dependencies  The JARs in the lib were automatically added by Eclipse when I added a new Spring Rest controller  I removed those from the lib folder and then let Maven handle the JARs dependancies and it was fine  Bottom line is if the JARS managed by maven and jars in the WEB-INF lib causes a classpath issues  you may encounter this error

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This same issue occurred for me and stack trace

SEVERE: A child container failed during start
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Tomcat].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/XXXXSearch]]
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:192)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:1123)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.startInternal(StandardHost.java:800)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Tomcat].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/XXXXSearch]]
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154)
    ... 6 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to complete the scan for annotations for web application [/XXXXSearch]. Possible root causes include a too low setting for -Xss and illegal cyclic inheritance dependencies
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsStream(ContextConfig.java:2109)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsJar(ContextConfig.java:1981)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsUrl(ContextConfig.java:1947)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotations(ContextConfig.java:1932)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1326)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:878)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:369)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5179)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
    ... 6 more
Caused by: java.lang.StackOverflowError
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.populateSCIsForCacheEntry(ContextConfig.java:2269)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.populateSCIsForCacheEntry(ContextConfig.java:2269)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.populateSCIsForCacheEntry(ContextConfig.java:2269)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.populateSCIsForCacheEntry(ContextConfig.java:2269)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.populateSCIsForCacheEntry(ContextConfig.java:2269)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.populateSCIsForCacheEntry(ContextConfig.java:2269)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.populateSCIsForCacheEntry(ContextConfig.java:2269
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.populateSCIsForCacheEntry(ContextConfig.java:2269)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.populateSCIsForCacheEntry(ContextConfig.java:2269)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.populateSCIsForCacheEntry(ContextConfig.java:2269)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.populateSCIsForCacheEntry(ContextConfig.java:2269)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.populateSCIsForCacheEntry(ContextConfig.java:2269)

In my analysis what i found was, this issue is occurred when illegal cyclic inheritance dependencies caused for Tomcat startup annotation processing.

But my project had lot of dependency JARs, and couldn't found which one is responsible for this.

After trying so many unhappy approaches What i did was , I have updated my tomcat plugin to following and ran the same scenario,

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat8-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.0-r1756463</version>
<\plugin>

Then i was able to find which JAR is caused to this issue ,

Aug 23, 2017 2:32:12 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig processAnnotationsJar
SEVERE: Unable to process Jar entry [cryptix/test/TestLOKI91.class] from Jar [jar:file:/C:/Users/Tharinda/.m2/repository/cryptix/cryptix/1.2.2/cryptix-1.2.2.jar!/] for annotations
java.io.EOFException
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.FastDataInputStream.readUnsignedShort(FastDataInputStream.java:120)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.readAttributes(ClassParser.java:110)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.parse(ClassParser.java:94)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsStream(ContextConfig.java:1994)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsJar(ContextConfig.java:1944)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsUrl(ContextConfig.java:1919)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotations(ContextConfig.java:1880)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1149)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:771)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:305)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5120)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1408)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1398)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Then just solving the issue with cryptix-1.2.2.jar solved this problem.

I strongly recommend to move tomcat8-maven-plugin which seems stable and less buggy at the moment.

User · Answer

for me one case was I just missed to maven update project which caused the same issue  maven update project and try if you see any errors in POM xml

User · Answer

If you are thinking that previously it was running properly and now on it started showing the particular issue  Then it is just a hit and trial method to solve  so to get better solution you could follow below steps   remove your existing tomcat  if possible remove your project and add your project with a new build add your tomcat server clean the project and refresh the project go for running or debug mode

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