The requested resource is not available error in Spring Web MVC - spring

Question

Dear Altruist,
I am trying to run Spring Web MVC HelloWeb project but it always shows "The requested resource is not available" error.
Would you please help me regarding this problem?
Project Structure:
web.xml file:
HelloWeb-servlet.xml file:
HelloController.java file:

Answer 1

Based on the error message it seems you do not have your context defined in Tomcat.
Include a file named context.xml, into the META-INF folder, with the content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context path="/HelloWeb"/>
From the tomcat documentation:
Tomcat Context Container Documentation
Individual Context elements may be explicitly defined:
In an individual file at /META-INF/context.xml inside the application
files. Optionally (based on the Host's copyXML attribute) this may be
copied to $CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ and renamed to
application's base file name plus a ".xml" extension.
Also, return a ModelView object instead of a String to get redirected to your home.jsp page.
#RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
protected ModelAndView printHello(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
ModelAndView model = new ModelAndView("hello");
return model;
}

Answer 2

Replace your beans tag like this.
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
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.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">