Class not found - xml config file

[onesixtyfourth]

I am new to spring and I am having trouble running a program with Spring. I have created a web app and have now tried to create a basic application and the beans.xml configuration file won't load. I have it on the classpath and it is correct (I think).

beans.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:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.1.xsd">


	<bean id="Console" name="ConsoleWriter"	class="glasys.lg.ConsoleWriter" >
	</bean>
</beans>

TestSpring.java

package glasys.lg;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class TestSpring
{	
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
//line 14		ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("beans.xml");
		ConsoleWriter writer = ctx.getBean("Console", ConsoleWriter.class);
		writer.writeConsole("I Hope This Has Worked");
	}
}

I have attached an image of the project explorer to show that the file is on the classpath. I have been around couple of times on this and I know that you guys are going to think me a complete noob but I am stuck. I have searched here and I could only find close problems not one the same. A possibility of library conflict was mentioned but I don't think this applies here.

The error I keep getting is this:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractApplicationContext.java:161)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:90)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableConfigApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractRefreshableConfigApplicationContext.java:59)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:61)
	at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:136)
	at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83)
	at glasys.lg.TestSpring.main(TestSpring.java:14)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
	... 7 more

which points at the line attempting to load the beans.xml file. Thanks

[Marten Deinum]

Read the stacktrace.

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory

Which indicates you are missing a library in this case commons-logging which is the only required dependency for spring. I suggest you use maven or ant+ivy or gradle to manage your dependencies instead of trying to figure it out by yourself.

[onesixtyfourth]

Thank you. Yes I had just realised this and I thought I was using those things through springsource tool suite.