So I downloaded a trial of idea ultimate, and I want to get spring mvc going with tomcat.
So I setup a new project, configured it to use sun jdk.
I chose a sprin
I'm not sure if your setup would be identical to mine, but when I downloaded spring-framework-2.5.6 there were jar files named spring-web.jar, spring-webmvc.jar, etc. in the \dist\modules subfolders. The tutorial indicated at least spring-webmvc.jar should be in your WEB-INF/lib folder.
This tutorial optionally used eclipse, but might be helpful anyways, especially getting started:
http://static.springsource.org/docs/Spring-MVC-step-by-step/