Why this Spring application with java-based configuration don't work properly

Question

I started recently a project with the Spring framework with the ojective to develop it without none XML config file, only Java code.

In this current moment, I add th

Answer 1

Maybe there're some conflicting overlapping between your web.xml and java-based configuration class. That's the root cause when I met the same error as you. And my solution is to comment out the duplicated configuration in web.xml.

Answer 2

I had a class

MyContextLoaderListener extends ContextLoaderListener

somewhere in my code. It was unused. Spring boot apparently used reflection to find it. I deleted the file and the problem was gone

Answer 3

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot initialize context because there is already a root application context present - check whether you have multiple ContextLoader* definitions in your web.xml!

In your WebAppInitializer, you are registering a ContextLoaderListener.

Because you are using AbstractSecurityWebApplicationInitializer with the super constructor that accepts a Class[]

Creates a new instance that will instantiate the ContextLoaderListener with the specified classes.

that also registers a ContextLoaderListener. Note the class javadoc

When used with AbstractSecurityWebApplicationInitializer(Class...), it will also register a ContextLoaderListener. When used with AbstractSecurityWebApplicationInitializer(), this class is typically used in addition to a subclass of AbstractContextLoaderInitializer.

As the error states, you cannot have two ContextLoaderListener instances because they will both try to create and add a ApplicationContext to the ServletContext.

Answer 4

I think the problem is that this:

.loginPage("spring/index").permitAll()

should be this:

.loginPage("/spring/index").permitAll() //note the '/' at the beginning of the uri