title: Spring App + Tomcat + XSLT = TransformerFactoryConfigurationError
body: <p>I am trying to deploy a Spring 3.0 Webapplicatoin to a tomcat5.5 server running on CentOS.
  Deployment works, but when I try to access the application I get a <code>TransformerFactoryConfigurationError</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter#0': Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError: Provider org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl not found
      org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:946)
      org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:890)
      org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:479)
      org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:450)
      org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290)
      org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
      org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:287)
      org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:189)
      org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:557)
      org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:842)
      org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:416)
      org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:443)
      org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:459)
      org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:340)
      org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:307)
      org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:127)
      javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Also I have xalan and xerces installed:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[root@srv-webserver xerces]# yum list xerces* xalan* | grep installed
  xalan-j2.i386                          2.7.0-6jpp.1                    installed
  xerces-j2.i386                         2.7.1-7jpp.2.el5_4.2            installed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I missing?</p>