Error while trying to set a Spring Web Service NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.<init> - spring

Question

I am getting this error while trying to set up my web service:
SEVERE: Allocate exception for servlet spring-ws
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.<init>(Lorg/springframework/web/context/WebApplicationContext;)V
at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet.<init>(MessageDispatcherServlet.java:178)
at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet.<init>(MessageDispatcherServlet.java:129)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:422)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)
at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:119)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:828)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:135)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:106)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:502)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:141)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:616)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:88)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:522)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1095)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:672)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1500)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1456)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
here is my web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd" version="3.1">
<display-name>TestService</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>spring-ws</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>transformWsdlLocations</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>spring-ws</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
and also my servlet xml configuration:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:sws="http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services/web-services-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.hr"/>
<sws:annotation-driven/>
<sws:dynamic-wsdl id="registerUser"
portTypeName="JobGetting"
locationUri="/testService/"
targetNamespace="http://com/hr/enteties">
<sws:xsd location="/WEB-INF/xsd"/>
</sws:dynamic-wsdl>
</beans>
When I try to run in on server I get the following message:
HTTP Status 500 - Error instantiating servlet class org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet
type Exception report
message Error instantiating servlet class org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet
description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:502)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:616)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:522)
org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1095)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:672)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1500)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1456)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
root cause
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.<init>(Lorg/springframework/web/context/WebApplicationContext;)V
org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet.<init>(MessageDispatcherServlet.java:178)
org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet.<init>(MessageDispatcherServlet.java:129)
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:422)
java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:502)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:616)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:522)
org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1095)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:672)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1500)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1456)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
I was trying to do the same acording to official spring documentation on page http://docs.spring.io/spring-ws/docs/2.4.0.RELEASE/reference/htmlsingle/ .
Can anyone give me a hint what could be wrong, because I haven't slept for a while trying to resolve this and similar tutorials for spring web services. Also could you give me an link to a working example tutorial with all important details, so i could rely on that? Thank you!
EDIT: additional info, I am using STS, Maven dependencies and Tomcat v8.0 server.
Here is my pom.xml:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>TestService</groupId>
<artifactId>TestService</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<org.springframework.version>4.2.6.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-ws-core</artifactId>
<version>2.3.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jdom</groupId>
<artifactId>jdom</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jaxen</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxen</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-impl</artifactId>
<version>2.1.8</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.sun.xml.bind/jaxb-xjc -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-xjc</artifactId>
<version>2.1.7</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.sun.xml.registry/jaxr-impl -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.xml.registry</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxr-impl</artifactId>
<version>1.0.8</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons.spring/jaxws-spring -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons.spring</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxws-spring</artifactId>
<version>1.8</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.3</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory>
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Answer 1

Java is looking for the org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet class, but it can't find it on the generated result. You probably added it as a dependency on Maven, and forgot to do a clean update to your container(generally Tomcat).
You seem to be missing one dependency on the final war. Check your build tool, or your war result by opening the .war and looking into WebContent/WEB-INF/lib for the missing jar.
If you're using Eclipse, go make a Maven Update, then rebuild(Ctrl+B), then do a clean on Tomcat and a republish on Tomcat.
If that still doesn't solve it, look for your Tomcat directory. Then go into wtpwebapps, and delete everything inside it. Then try to start it from STS again.