contextLoaderListener configuration, controller not found - spring

Question

When I run my sample spring mvc webapplication with just DispatcherServlet it works fine but when I include ContextLoaderlListener also its trying to find controller class from applicationContext.xml which is actually defined in to scan in dispatcher-servlet.xml
Here is my web.xml
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/application-context.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/myapp-servlet.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Here is my application-context.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
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/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.startcompany.startapp">
<context:exclude-filter type="annotation" expression="com.startcompany.startapp.controller"/>
</context:component-scan>
</beans>
And this is myapp-servlet.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
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/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.startcompany.startapp.controller"/>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/views/jsp/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
getting this exception while deploying on tomcat.
SEVERE: Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Type filter class not found: com.startcompany.startapp.controller; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.startcompany.startapp.controller
Offending resource: ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/application-context.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.startcompany.startapp.controller
at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.FailFastProblemReporter.error(FailFastProblemReporter.java:70)

Answer 1

I think the problem is related with two contradictory statement in diff file.At one place you are trying to include the controller package for scanning and at other place you are excluding it.
application-context.xml
<context:exclude-filter type="annotation" expression="com.startcompany.startapp.controller"/>
myapp-servlet.xml
<context:component-scan base-package="com.startcompany.startapp.controller"/>

Answer 2

In exclude-filter, with type="annotation", you should use an annotation by which the excluded class is marked
expression="MyExcludingAnnotation"