BeanFactory not initialized or already closed - call 'refresh' before

Question

here is my error:

I am getting this error , can any one help me on this.

> SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener > instance of class > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener > java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: > org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.setEnvironment(Lorg/springframework/core/env/Environment;)V >   at > org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:87) >   at > org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:131) >   at > org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:522) >   at > org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:436) >   at > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:385) >   at > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:284) >   at > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:111) >   at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4723) >   at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext$1.call(StandardContext.java:5226) >   at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext$1.call(StandardContext.java:5221) >   at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)    at > java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)   at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source) >   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) >   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Nov 21, 2013 12:54:38 PM > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal SEVERE: Error > listenerStart Nov 21, 2013 12:54:38 PM > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal SEVERE: Context > [/FLPalette] startup failed due to previous errors Nov 21, 2013 > 12:54:38 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: > Closing Spring root WebApplicationContext Nov 21, 2013 12:54:38 PM > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStop SEVERE: > Exception sending context destroyed event to listener instance of > class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener > java.lang.IllegalStateException: BeanFactory not initialized or > already closed - call 'refresh' before accessing beans via the > ApplicationContext    at > org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.getBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:172) >   at > org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.destroyBeans(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1066) >   at > org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.doClose(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1040) >   at > org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.close(AbstractApplicationContext.java:988) >   at > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.closeWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:556) >   at > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextDestroyed(ContextLoaderListener.java:142) >   at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStop(StandardContext.java:4763) >   at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext$4.run(StandardContext.java:5472) >   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)     at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.stopInternal(StandardContext.java:5481) >   at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.stop(LifecycleBase.java:225) >   at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:153) >   at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:1033) >   at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.startInternal(StandardHost.java:774) >   at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:145) >   at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:1033) >   at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal(StandardEngine.java:291) >   at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:145) >   at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal(StandardService.java:443) >   at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:145) >   at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.startInternal(StandardServer.java:727) >   at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:145) >   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:620)    at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)   at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)   at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)   at > java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)   at > org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:303)   at > org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:431) Nov 21, > 2013 12:54:38 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start INFO: > Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"] Nov 21, 2013 12:54:38 PM > org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start INFO: Starting > ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"] Nov 21, 2013 12:54:38 PM > org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start 

pom.xml :

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>   <groupId>com.paypal.palette</groupId>   <artifactId>FLPalette</artifactId>   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>   <packaging>war</packaging>    <name>FLPalette</name>   <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>   <dependencies>   <dependency>     <groupId>mysql</groupId>     <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>     <version>5.1.5</version> </dependency>        <dependency>             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>             <artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>             <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>             </dependency>             <dependency>             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>             <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>             <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>         </dependency>         <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>             <artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>             <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>         </dependency>      <dependency>     <groupId>wsdl4j</groupId>     <artifactId>wsdl4j</artifactId>     <version>1.6.3</version>     <scope>test</scope> </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>junit</groupId>         <artifactId>junit</artifactId>         <version>4.8.1</version>         <type>jar</type>         <scope>compile</scope>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>         <version>3.1.1.RELEASE</version>         <type>jar</type>         <scope>compile</scope>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>         <version>3.1.1.RELEASE</version>         <type>jar</type>         <scope>compile</scope>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>log4j</groupId>         <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>         <version>1.2.14</version>         <type>jar</type>         <scope>compile</scope>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>         <version>3.1.1.RELEASE</version>         <type>jar</type>         <scope>compile</scope>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>jstl</groupId>         <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>         <version>1.1.2</version>         <type>jar</type>         <scope>compile</scope>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>taglibs</groupId>         <artifactId>standard</artifactId>         <version>1.1.2</version>         <type>jar</type>         <scope>compile</scope>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>         <version>3.1.1.RELEASE</version>         <type>jar</type>         <scope>compile</scope>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>         <version>3.1.1.RELEASE</version>         <type>jar</type>         <scope>compile</scope>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>         <version>3.1.1.RELEASE</version>         <type>jar</type>         <scope>compile</scope>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>         <version>3.1.1.RELEASE</version>         <type>jar</type>         <scope>compile</scope>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>         <version>3.1.1.RELEASE</version>         <type>jar</type>         <scope>compile</scope>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>         <version>3.1.1.RELEASE</version>         <type>jar</type>         <scope>compile</scope>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-security-ldap</artifactId>         <version>3.1.1.RELEASE</version>         <type>jar</type>         <scope>compile</scope>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>com.jcraft</groupId>         <artifactId>jsch</artifactId>         <version>0.1.50</version>     </dependency>     <dependency>     <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>     <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>     <version>2.5</version>     </dependency>     <dependency>     <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>     <artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>     <version>3.1.0.RELEASE</version>     </dependency>     <dependency>     <groupId>org.json</groupId>     <artifactId>json</artifactId>     <version>20090211</version>     </dependency>        <dependency>    <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>    <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>    <version>1.2.1</version>      </dependency>         <dependency>       <groupId>commons-io</groupId>       <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>       <version>1.4</version>     </dependency>              </dependencies>   <properties>         <org.springframework.version>3.0.2.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>     </properties>   <build>     <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>        <plugins>       <plugin>         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>         <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>         <version>2.3.2</version>         <configuration>           <source>1.6</source>           <target>1.6</target>         </configuration>       </plugin>       <plugin>            <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>                   </plugin>     </plugins>   </build>   </project> 

Answer 1

This exception come due to you are providing listener ContextLoaderListener

<listener> <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class> </listener> 

but you are not providing context-param for your spring configuration file. like applicationContext.xml You must provide below snippet for your configuration

<context-param>     <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>     <param-value>applicationContext.xml</param-value> </context-param> 

If You are providing the java based spring configuration , means you are not using xml file for spring configuration at that time you must provide below code:

<!-- Configure ContextLoaderListener to use AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext instead of the default XmlWebApplicationContext --> <context-param>     <param-name>contextClass</param-name>     <param-value>     org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext     </param-value> </context-param>  <!-- Configuration locations must consist of one or more comma- or space-delimited fully-qualified @Configuration classes. Fully-qualified packages may also be specified for component-scanning --> <context-param>     <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>     <param-value>com.nirav.modi.config.SpringAppConfig</param-value> </context-param> 

Answer 2

The issue here is that the version of spring-web that you're using (3.1.1-RELEASE) is not compatible with the version of spring-beans that you're using (3.0.2-RELEASE). At the top of the stack you can see the NoSuchMethodError which in turn triggers the BeanFactory not initialized... exception.

The NoSuchMethodError is caused because the method invocation XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions() in spring-web is trying to call XmlBeanDefinitionReader.setEnvironment() in spring-beans which doesn't exist in 3.0.2-RELEASE. It does however exist in 3.1.1-RELEASE - as setEnvironment is inherited from the parent AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.

To resolve, you'd probably be best to upgrade the spring-beans jar to 3.1.1-RELEASE. The version for this jar appears to be parameterized in your pom.xml and is controlled by the property org.springframework.version further down in the file.