Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml]

Question

My web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_4_0.xsd"
         version="4.0">

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
            org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
        </servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

My dispatcher-servlet.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"
       xsi:schemaLocation="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-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">

    <context:component-scan base-package = "mvc"/>
    <mvc:annotation-driven/>
    <bean class = "org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name = "prefix" value = "/WEB-INF/pages/" />
        <property name = "suffix" value = ".jsp" />
    </bean>
    <bean id="propertyConfigurer"
          class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="location" value="classpath:jdbc.properties"/>
    </bean>
    <bean id="dataSource"
          class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
        <property name="driverClassName" value="${database.driver}"/>
        <property name="url" value="${database.url}"/>
        <property name="username" value="${database.user}"/>
        <property name="password" value="${database.password}"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id = "jdbcTemplate" class = "org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate">
        <property name = "dataSource" ref = "dataSource"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id = "dao" class = "mvc.dao.DAOImpl">
        <property name = "template" ref = "jdbcTemplate"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id = "daoStudent" class = "mvc.dao.daoimplementation.DAOStudentImpl">
        <property name = "template" ref = "jdbcTemplate"/>
    </bean>
    <bean id = "daoObject" class = "mvc.dao.daoimplementation.DAOObjectImpl">
        <property name = "template" ref = "jdbcTemplate"/>
    </bean>
    <bean id = "daoLecturer" class = "mvc.dao.daoimplementation.DAOLecturerImpl">
        <property name = "template" ref = "jdbcTemplate"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id = "daoMark" class = "mvc.dao.daoimplementation.DAOMarkImpl">
        <property name = "template" ref = "jdbcTemplate"/>
    </bean>
    <bean id = "daoSubject" class = "mvc.dao.daoimplementation.DAOSubjectImpl">
        <property name = "template" ref = "jdbcTemplate"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id = "daoLesson" class = "mvc.dao.daoimplementation.DAOLessonImpl">
        <property name = "template" ref = "jdbcTemplate"/>
    </bean>
</beans>

Project structure

When I'm deploying my app on Weblogic, it crushes with following error

<11.07.2018 0:11:29,387 EEST> <[STANDBY] ExecuteThread: '4' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <> <> <5f96a035-f431-4eb1-8b1e-92458ce46cdd-00000007> <1531257089387> <[severity-value: 8] [rid: 0] [partition-id: 0] [partition-name: DOMAIN] >

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml] at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:343) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:303) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:187) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:223) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:194) at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:125) at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:133) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:621) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:522) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:672) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:638) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:686) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:554) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:499) at org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:172) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:244) at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletInitAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:343) at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletInitAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:294) at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:326) at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAsForUserCode(SecurityManager.java:197) at weblogic.servlet.provider.WlsSecurityProvider.runAsForUserCode(WlsSecurityProvider.java:203) at weblogic.servlet.provider.WlsSubjectHandle.run(WlsSubjectHandle.java:71) at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.initServletInstance(StubSecurityHelper.java:99) at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.createServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:87) at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.createOneInstance(StubLifecycleHelper.java:71) at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.(StubLifecycleHelper.java:57) at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.(StubLifecycleHelper.java:31) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.initStubLifecycleHelper(ServletStubImpl.java:673) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:612) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:2064) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.loadServletsOnStartup(WebAppServletContext.java:2041) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:1930) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletContext.java:3101) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:1843) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:884) at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper$StartStateChange.next(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:360) at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper$StartStateChange.next(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:356) at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:45) at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper.start(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:138) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:124) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:233) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:228) at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:45) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:78) at weblogic.application.internal.flow.StartModulesFlow.activate(StartModulesFlow.java:52) at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$2.next(BaseDeployment.java:752) at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:45) at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.activate(BaseDeployment.java:262) at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.activate(EarDeployment.java:66) at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:165) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:90) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.BasicDeployment.activate(BasicDeployment.java:274) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.BasicDeployment.activateFromServerLifecycle(BasicDeployment.java:507) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter$1.doActivate(DeploymentAdapter.java:53) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter.activate(DeploymentAdapter.java:202) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.AppTransition$2.transitionApp(AppTransition.java:52) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments$2.doItem(ConfiguredDeployments.java:741) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.parallel.BucketInvoker.invoke(BucketInvoker.java:138) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.transitionAppsParallel(ConfiguredDeployments.java:749) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.transitionAppsParallel(ConfiguredDeployments.java:702) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.activate(ConfiguredDeployments.java:381) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.deploy(ConfiguredDeployments.java:233) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentServerService.resume(DeploymentServerService.java:219) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentServerService.start(DeploymentServerService.java:133) at weblogic.server.AbstractServerService.postConstruct(AbstractServerService.java:76) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor5.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.glassfish.hk2.utilities.reflection.ReflectionHelper.invoke(ReflectionHelper.java:1287) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ClazzCreator.postConstructMe(ClazzCreator.java:333) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ClazzCreator.create(ClazzCreator.java:375) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.SystemDescriptor.create(SystemDescriptor.java:487) at org.glassfish.hk2.runlevel.internal.AsyncRunLevelContext.findOrCreate(AsyncRunLevelContext.java:305) at org.glassfish.hk2.runlevel.RunLevelContext.findOrCreate(RunLevelContext.java:85) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.Utilities.createService(Utilities.java:2126) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ServiceHandleImpl.getService(ServiceHandleImpl.java:116) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ServiceLocatorImpl.getService(ServiceLocatorImpl.java:698) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ThreeThirtyResolver.resolve(ThreeThirtyResolver.java:78) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ClazzCreator.resolve(ClazzCreator.java:212) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ClazzCreator.resolveAllDependencies(ClazzCreator.java:235) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ClazzCreator.create(ClazzCreator.java:358) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.SystemDescriptor.create(SystemDescriptor.java:487) at org.glassfish.hk2.runlevel.internal.AsyncRunLevelContext.findOrCreate(AsyncRunLevelContext.java:305) at org.glassfish.hk2.runlevel.RunLevelContext.findOrCreate(RunLevelContext.java:85) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.Utilities.createService(Utilities.java:2126) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ServiceHandleImpl.getService(ServiceHandleImpl.java:116) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ServiceHandleImpl.getService(ServiceHandleImpl.java:90) at org.glassfish.hk2.runlevel.internal.CurrentTaskFuture$QueueRunner.oneJob(CurrentTaskFuture.java:1237) at org.glassfish.hk2.runlevel.internal.CurrentTaskFuture$QueueRunner.run(CurrentTaskFuture.java:1168) at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:670) at weblogic.invocation.ComponentInvocationContextManager._runAs(ComponentInvocationContextManager.java:352) at weblogic.invocation.ComponentInvocationContextManager.runAs(ComponentInvocationContextManager.java:337) at weblogic.work.LivePartitionUtility.doRunWorkUnderContext(LivePartitionUtility.java:57) at weblogic.work.PartitionUtility.runWorkUnderContext(PartitionUtility.java:41) at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.runWorkUnderContext(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:644) at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:415) at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:355)

Full log here

I tried to add this

<init-param>
     <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
     <param-value>WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml</param-value>
</init-param>

and then this

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

to web.xml, but didn't help

EDIT

I renamed servlet to DispatcherServlet and dispatcher-servlet.xml to DispatcherServlet-servlet.xml, but error stil says Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml]

EDIT 2

I created new clean Spring MVC project and the problem remains. I think that the problem could be in Weblogic, I'll try to reinstall it

You are using maven, judging from the pom.xml however your structure isn't according to the structure maven expects. Fix your project structure or modify everything in your pom.xml to match your structure. (Generally the first thing is the easiest to do). — M. Deinum
@M.Deinum, I changed project structure to this, problem stil the same i.gyazo.com/7becbe007b4ea194572fc42b8a467342.png — SummertimeSadness
Which is still the wrong structure... WEB-INF must be in webapp not in webapp/web. — M. Deinum

devwebcl devwebcl · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-10T21:54:17

Try adding the following param's :

i.e.:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>DispatcherServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>
            /WEB-INF/DispatcherServlet-servlet.xml
        </param-value>
    </init-param>
</servlet>

if the Servlet is called DispatcherServlet then then xml must be called DispatcherServlet-servlet.xml based on Spring definition

Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml]

2 Answers