title: Spring ContextLoadListener error
body: <p>I had a functioning Spring MVC app that I wanted to add a form to.  However, once I added the form  to the jsp using  tag, I started getting a <em>No WebApplicationContext found: no ContextLoaderListener registered?</em> error.</p>
  
  <p>I did some searching on here, and I didn't have an listener inside of my web.xml file.  I added the most recommended listener and context, however I then started getting a <em>404 requested resource is not available error</em>. If I take the listener out, then I go back to getting the previous error.  Any help would be appreciated!   Relevant code is below:</p>
  
  <p>web.xml: </p>
  
  <pre><code> ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
           xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" 
           xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd" 
           id="WebApp_ID" version="3.1"&gt;
  
  
  
    &lt;servlet&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;spring&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;servlet-class&gt;org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet&lt;/servlet-class&gt;
      &lt;load-on-startup&gt;1&lt;/load-on-startup&gt;
    &lt;/servlet&gt;
  
    &lt;servlet-mapping&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;spring&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;url-pattern&gt;/&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
    &lt;/servlet-mapping&gt;
  
    &lt;display-name&gt;Mic&lt;/display-name&gt;
    &lt;welcome-file-list&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;index.html&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;index.htm&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;index.jsp&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;default.html&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;default.htm&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;default.jsp&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
    &lt;/welcome-file-list&gt;
  
  &lt;context-param&gt;
      &lt;param-name&gt;contextConfigLocation&lt;/param-name&gt;
      &lt;param-value&gt;spring-servlet.xml&lt;/param-value&gt;
  &lt;/context-param&gt;
  
  &lt;!-- &lt;listener&gt;
      &lt;listener-class&gt;org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener&lt;/listener-class&gt;
  &lt;/listener&gt; --&gt;
  
    &lt;filter&gt;
      &lt;display-name&gt;springSecurityFilterChain&lt;/display-name&gt;
      &lt;filter-name&gt;springSecurityFilterChain&lt;/filter-name&gt;
      &lt;filter-class&gt;org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy&lt;/filter-class&gt;
    &lt;/filter&gt;
    &lt;filter-mapping&gt;
      &lt;filter-name&gt;springSecurityFilterChain&lt;/filter-name&gt;
      &lt;url-pattern&gt;/*&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
    &lt;/filter-mapping&gt;
  &lt;/web-app&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>spring-servlet.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"           xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
      xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
      xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang"
      xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
      xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang.xsd
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd"&gt;
  
  
  
      &lt;context:annotation-config /&gt;
      &lt;context:component-scan base-package="social.mic" /&gt;    
  
  
      &lt;bean id="propertyConfigurer"
          class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
          p:location="/WEB-INF/jdbc.properties" /&gt;
  
      &lt;bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
          destroy-method="close" p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}"
          p:url="${jdbc.databaseurl}" p:username="${jdbc.username}" p:password="${jdbc.password}" /&gt;
  
      &lt;bean id="sessionFactory"
          class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean"&gt;
          &lt;property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" /&gt;
          &lt;property name="configLocation"&gt;
              &lt;value&gt;classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml&lt;/value&gt;
          &lt;/property&gt;
          &lt;property name="configurationClass"&gt;
              &lt;value&gt;org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration&lt;/value&gt;
          &lt;/property&gt;
          &lt;property name="hibernateProperties"&gt;
              &lt;props&gt;
                  &lt;prop key="hibernate.dialect"&gt;${jdbc.dialect}&lt;/prop&gt;
                  &lt;prop key="hibernate.show_sql"&gt;true&lt;/prop&gt;
              &lt;/props&gt;
          &lt;/property&gt;
      &lt;/bean&gt;
      &lt;bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver"&gt;
          &lt;property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/&gt;
          &lt;property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/&gt;
          &lt;property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/&gt;
      &lt;/bean&gt;
      &lt;tx:annotation-driven /&gt;
      &lt;bean id="transactionManager"
          class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager"&gt;
          &lt;property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" /&gt;
      &lt;/bean&gt; 
  &lt;/beans&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>index.jsp</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
      pageEncoding="UTF-8"%&gt;
  &lt;%@ include file="/WEB-INF/jsp/includes.jsp"%&gt;
  &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;Insert title here&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  
  &lt;h1&gt;Welcome to Mic&lt;/h1&gt;
  
  &lt;a href="online"&gt;See who's online&lt;/a&gt;
  
  &lt;form:form commandName="player"&gt;
    &lt;form:input path="email" /&gt;
  
  &lt;/form:form&gt;
  
  
  &lt;c:forEach items="${whateve}" var="game"&gt;
      ${game.name}&lt;br&gt;
  
  &lt;/c:forEach&gt;
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>FULL-STACK TRACE</p>
  
  <pre><code>SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [spring] in context with path [/Mic] threw exception
  java.lang.IllegalStateException: No WebApplicationContext found: no ContextLoaderListener registered?
      at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.doFilter(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:159)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:219)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:106)
      at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:501)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:142)
      at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
      at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:610)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:88)
      at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:537)
      at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1085)
      at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:658)
      at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11NioProtocol.java:222)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1556)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1513)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
  </code></pre>
  
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