java.lang.IllegalStateException: No WebApplicationContext found: no ContextLoaderList

[deanclarke]

I am having this strange and annoying problem with Spring Security 3.1 with Spring 3.

Stack TRace

Sep 04, 2012 3:33:40 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8089"]
Sep 04, 2012 3:33:40 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Sep 04, 2012 3:33:40 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 20130 ms
Sep 04, 2012 3:33:42 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [appServlet] in context with path [/employeegrowthtracker] threw exception
java.lang.IllegalStateException: No WebApplicationContext found: no ContextLoaderListener registered?
at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterPro xy.doFilter(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:251)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.in ternalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.do Filter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invo ke(StandardWrapperValve.java:240)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invo ke(StandardContextValve.java:164)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBas e.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:462)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke( StandardHostValve.java:164)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke (ErrorReportValve.java:100)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(A ccessLogValve.java:562)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invok e(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.servic e(CoyoteAdapter.java:395)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(H ttp11Processor.java:250)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11Conn ectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:188)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11Conn ectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:166)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProce ssor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:302)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker( ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run (ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)


My Web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<!-- Processes application requests -->
<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFil terProxy</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextAttribute</param-name>
<param-value>org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkSer vlet.CONTEXT.spring</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

<!-- The definition of the Root Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<!-- Creates the Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
<listener>
<listener-class>
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListe ner
</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherSe rvlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-context.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

[deanclarke]

When I comment out the spring filter from the web.xml, the application run and I am getting the default page however, I believe the filter should be there so spring security can interrogate each request to each hyperlink. How can I get this thing to work?

[deanclarke]

When I comment out the spring filter from the web.xml, the application run and I am getting the default page however, I believe the filter should be there so spring security can interrogate each request to each hyperlink. How can I get this thing to work?

Can you believe this? I got it to work by just putting filters after the servlet-mapping tag in the web.xml. Very terrible the configuration stuff, I hope the spring people rewrite this configuration stuff real soon.