ClassNotFoundException at Spring Bean Injection

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I have a Spring beans.xml that specifies a certain class my.package.Class to be injected somewhere in my code by Autowiring. The program is actually a web application inside a Tomcat container. Now when I launch Tomcat the logfile tells me my.package.Class cannot be found, even though its JAR is both in the classpath and the web application's lib/ directory. Do I have to tell Tomcat or Spring where to find the JAR, too, and if so: how?

is your .class file in folder WEB-INF/classes folder?

Bhavik Shah
– Bhavik Shah

2012-10-25 13:14:39 +00:00
Commented Oct 25, 2012 at 13:14 — Bhavik Shah
– Bhavik Shah, Commented Oct 25, 2012 at 13:14

user · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-25 13:42:57Z

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Make sure, you have this code in your context:

<context:annotation-config />
<context:component-scan base-package="package.autowire.context" />

For more info you better read http://springindepth.com/book/in-depth-ioc-autowiring.html

By the way, check the default output folder in your project build path. That could also be the cause.

answered Oct 25, 2012 at 13:42

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Joko Over a year ago

Thanks a lot, that did the trick! I must say though that the Error description that Tomcat/Spring gave wasn't quite informative, don't you agree?

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