DispatcherServlet not found

[ginni@aero.org]

Okay, I've spent two days grinding away at this. None of the solutions have worked for me so far.

I am running SpringSource Tool Suite 2.3.0 and trying to write a very simple Spring MVC sample app. I have Spring 3.0 loaded. I have ALL of the libs in my WEB-INF\lib folder for the project, though I know that is overkill, but I am desperate.

My web.xml looks like this:

 <?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_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
  <servlet>
  	<servlet-name>Spring2</servlet-name>
  	<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
  	<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>	
  </servlet>
  
  <servlet-mapping>
  	<servlet-name>Spring2</servlet-name>
  	<url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  
  <display-name>Spring2</display-name>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

And my Spring2-servlet.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">
<bean name="/hello.htm" class="org.aero.tcs.add.spring2.HelloController"/>
</beans>

With the HelloController:

package org.aero.tcs.add.spring2;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;


import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.Controller;

public class HelloController implements Controller {
	protected final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());
	public ModelAndView handleRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) 
	throws ServletException, IOException {
		logger.info("returning hello view");
		return new ModelAndView("hello.jsp");
	}
	
}

exception details:
Jan 6, 2010 8:07:39 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
SEVERE: Error loading WebappClassLoader
delegate: false
repositories:
/WEB-INF/classes/
----------> Parent Classloader:
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader@665 753
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet

Please somebody help me figure out why DispatcherServlet or WebappClassLoader cannot be found.

Thank you,
Ginni

[ginni@aero.org]

I had added WEB-INF/lib to the Sources in the Build Path of the project and once I removed that, the error went away.