Menu
This is my first time working with Spring and I am following the tutorial on PluralSight. Running the first example, I run into the error that is listed in the title. In my console, I get errors like these. I am using older versions of the dependencies to go through this course. I've made sure to follow the tutorial closely so not sure if I messed up somewhere or something is deprecated. I am using http://localhost:8080/FitnessTracker/greeting.html
SEVERE: Context initialization failed
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
SEVERE: StandardWrapper.Throwable
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
SEVERE: Allocate exception for servlet fitTrackerServlet
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
HelloController.java
package com.pluralsight.controller;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
@Controller
public class HelloController {
@RequestMapping(value = "/greeting")
public String sayHello(Model model) {
model.addAttribute("greeting", "Hello World");
return "hello";
}
}
servlet-config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd">
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.pluralsight.controller" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/" p:suffix=".jsp"/>
</beans>
hello.jsp
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>${greeting}</h1>
</body>
</html>
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.5" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>fitTrackerServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/config/servlet-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>fitTrackerServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<display-name>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name>
</web-app>
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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.pluralsight</groupId>
<artifactId>FitnessTracker</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>FitnessTracker Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>FitnessTracker</finalName>
</build>
</project>
235
I had the same problem with the same PluralSight tutorial. I had both Java 1.7 and Java 1.8 installed. The project apparently throws an exception with Java 1.8. To rectify this situation you need to ensure that your Spring STS environment is set to use Java 1.7.
The PluralSight tutorial now works for me. I am beginner to Java and Spring MVC myself so I am not sure if this was the best way to solve the problem.
51
Well, spring 3.2 needs java 7 or earlier. Instead of changing project properties, one another solution is just change the version number of spring mvc in pom.xml to 4.2.4.RELEASE instead of 3.2.0.RELEASE that you have used earlier. Now, you can proceed normally with java 8.
Below, I show the whole pom.xml with only change that I mentioned above.
<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.pluralsight</groupId>
<artifactId>FitnessTracker</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>FitnessTracker Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>4.2.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>FitnessTracker</finalName>
</build>
</project>
If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
Donate Us With
