java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener

Question

I included these in the Build Path:

• all Spring libs
• Apache Tomcat 7.0 library

The project still fails during startup:

Answer 1

I was facing the same issue for a eclipse project configured for Tomcat 7 runtime

Right click on project and go to project properties. Click on Deployment Assembly. I could notice that my spring library jars which I created during compile time with a user library was missing. Just add the jars and you should see no errors in console during tomcat start up