java.lang.IllegalStateException: No WebApplicationContext found: no ContextLoaderListener registered?

Question

This the file web.xml in WEB-INF

Answer 1

I've recently stumbled upon the same issue, and I knew for sure it couldn't be caused by misconfiguration because I've copied the entire working Tomcat installation from another machine. Yet I kept getting the same exception:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No WebApplicationContext found: not in a DispatcherServlet request and no ContextLoaderListener registered?

As I've eventually figured out, it was a wrong JVM version that broke the application: this one used Java 7, whereas the working instance (and the webapp) was on Java 8.

Hope it helps someone struggling with this counter-intuitive error message.