No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath

Question

My Eclipse project is suddenly no longer deploying properly. I can't trace it to any particular change I've made to the environment.

I have tested with multiple source-controlled projects and they are all behaving the same way:

May 01, 2013 12:00:45 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in     production environments was not found on the java.library.path: C:\Program Files   (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_11\bin;C:\Windows\Sun\Java\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA     Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows \System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;. May 01, 2013 12:00:45 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:fismacm' did not find a matching property. May 01, 2013 12:00:45 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"] May 01, 2013 12:00:45 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"] May 01, 2013 12:00:45 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load INFO: Initialization processed in 296 ms May 01, 2013 12:00:45 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal INFO: Starting service Catalina May 01, 2013 12:00:45 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.35 May 01, 2013 12:00:46 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/core is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/sql_rt is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/sql is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/core_rt is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/standard/permittedTaglibs is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/xml is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/standard/scriptfree is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt_rt is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/xml is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/xml_rt is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/sql is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://www.springframework.org/tags/form is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://www.springframework.org/tags is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://www.springframework.org/security/tags is already defined May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: Set web app root system property: 'webapp.root' =     [X:\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\fismacm\] May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: Initializing log4j from [X:\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\fismacm\WEB-    INF\log4j.properties] May 01, 2013 12:00:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder". SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details. May 01, 2013 12:00:49 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"] May 01, 2013 12:00:49 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"] May 01, 2013 12:00:49 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start INFO: Server startup in 3898 ms 

This seems like the key component: INFO: No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath.

I've tried cleaning the projects, redefining the servers, and even creating whole new workspaces. I've clearly missed the mark.

Any tips on getting this cleaned up would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I spent hours on this, and the solution was:

• Stop Tomcat
• "Project" menu -> Clean -> Clean all projects
• Servers tab -> Tomcat -> Right click -> Clean...
• Right click on project -> Run as -> Run on server

Answer 2

This turned out to be a stupid error. My log4j wasn't configured to capture my error output. I was throwing configuration errors in the background and once I fixed those I was good to go and my request mappings worked fine.