NoSuchMethodException is thrown when deploying spring app into tomcat

[rc_hz]

Hi,

When I try to deploy the sample application(springblog) from "Pro Spring3" book into tomcat, I always got a java.lang.NoSuchMethodException which indicates that it failed to parse the DelegatingFilterProxy in web.xml. I am sure that all the corresponding spring jars are there. But I don't know why it still fails. Could anyone give some tips ?

Thanks in advance!

1. This is the content of web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">
<!-- The definition of the Root Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
<!-- Enable escaping of form submission contents -->
<context-param>
<param-name>defaultHtmlEscape</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>spring.profiles.active</param-name>
<!-- Spring profile parameters
First profile: jpa - JPA implementation
mybatis - MyBatis implementation
Second profile: mysql - MySQL DB
h2 - H2 database
-->
<param-value>jpa,h2</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml
/WEB-INF/spring/datasource.xml
/WEB-INF/spring/batch-context.xml
/WEB-INF/spring/*-tx-config.xml
/WEB-INF/spring/*-service-context.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>

<!-- Spring Security Configuration -->
<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFil terProxy</filter-class>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
...
</web-app>

2. This is the error output of tomcat when it starts:
WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Context/Loader} Setting property 'useSystemClassLoaderAsParent' to 'false' did not find a matching property.
Dec 14, 2012 8:20:19 AM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester endElement
SEVERE: End event threw exception
java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.apache.catalina.deploy.WebXml addFilter
at org.apache.tomcat.util.IntrospectionUtils.callMeth od1(IntrospectionUtils.java:855)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetNextRule.end(Se tNextRule.java:201)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.endElemen t(Digester.java:1051)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.Abstrac tSAXParser.endElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:606)
...
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Dec 14, 2012 8:20:19 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig parseWebXml
SEVERE: Parse error in application web.xml file at jndi:/localhost/springblog/WEB-INF/web.xml
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: jndi:/localhost/springblog/WEB-INF/web.xml; lineNumber: 34; columnNumber: 14; Error at (34, 14) : org.apache.catalina.deploy.WebXml addFilter
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.createSAX Exception(Digester.java:2687)
...
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.apache.catalina.deploy.WebXml addFilter
at org.apache.tomcat.util.IntrospectionUtils.callMeth od1(IntrospectionUtils.java:855)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetNextRule.end(Se tNextRule.java:201)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.endElemen t(Digester.java:1051)
... 30 more
Dec 14, 2012 8:20:19 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig parseWebXml
SEVERE: Occurred at line 34 column 14
Dec 14, 2012 8:20:19 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig configureStart
SEVERE: Marking this application unavailable due to previous error(s)
Dec 14, 2012 8:20:19 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Error getConfigured
Dec 14, 2012 8:20:19 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Context [/springblog] startup failed due to previous errors