BeanCreationException and NoClassDefFoundError : What am I missing in here?

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I don't see the tag (mvc:annotation-driven) in your spring context file. Please add that to your context file that should resolve the problem.

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Updated on June 28, 2022

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    Rachel almost 2 years

    I have following file upload code:

    package net.viralpatel.contact.controller;
    
    import org.slf4j.Logger;
    import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
    import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
    import org.springframework.ui.Model;
    import org.springframework.validation.BindingResult;
    import org.springframework.validation.ObjectError;
    import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
    import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
    
    import net.viralpatel.contact.dao.FileUpload;
    
    @Controller
    @RequestMapping("/fileupload")
    public class FileUploadController {
    
        public FileUploadController() {
            System.out.println("FileUploadController is Started");
        }
    
        @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
        public String doGet(Model model) {
            System.out.println("Inside doGet method of FileUploadController");
            model.addAttribute(new FileUpload());
            return "fileUpload";
        }
    
        @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
        public String upload(FileUpload fileUpload, BindingResult result) {
    System.out.println("Inside upload method of FileUploadController");
            if (result.hasErrors()) {
                for (ObjectError error : result.getAllErrors()) {
                    log.error("Error binding result. Code: {}, Message: {}",
                            error.getCode(), error.getDefaultMessage());
                }
                return "fileUpload";
            }
    
            log.debug("fileUpload: {}", fileUpload);
            log.debug("File Uploaded with name {} and size: {}",
                    fileUpload.getName(), fileUpload.getFileData().getSize());
            return "fileUpload";
        }
    }
    

    My web.xml is

    <?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">
      <display-name>Spring3-Hibernate</display-name>
      <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>list.html</welcome-file>
      </welcome-file-list>
      <servlet>
        <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <!-- Added for File Upload -->
    <!--     <init-param> -->
    <!--            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> -->
    <!--            <param-value> -->
    <!--                /WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml -->
    <!--            </param-value> -->
    <!--    </init-param> -->
        <!-- Added for FileUpload -->
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
      </servlet>
      <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
      </servlet-mapping>
    </web-app>
    

    My spring-servlet.xml file

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
        xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
        xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang"
        xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
        xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">
    
        <context:annotation-config />
        <context:component-scan base-package="net.viralpatel.contact" />
    
        <bean id="jspViewResolver"
            class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
            <property name="viewClass"
                value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
            <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
            <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
        </bean>
    
        <bean id="messageSource"
            class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
            <property name="basename" value="classpath:messages" />
            <property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
        </bean>
    
        <bean id="propertyConfigurer"
            class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
            p:location="/WEB-INF/jdbc.properties" />
    
    <!--    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" -->
    <!--        destroy-method="close" p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}" -->
    <!--        p:url="${jdbc.databaseurl}" p:username="${jdbc.username}" p:password="${jdbc.password}" /> -->
    
        <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
            destroy-method="close" p:driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
            p:url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/ContactManager" p:username="root" p:password="12345" />
    
    
        <bean id="sessionFactory"
            class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
            <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
            <property name="configLocation">
                <value>classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
            </property>
            <property name="configurationClass">
                <value>org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration</value>
            </property>
            <property name="hibernateProperties">
                <props>
                    <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${jdbc.dialect}</prop>
                    <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
                </props>
            </property>
        </bean>
    
    <!-- FileUpload -->
    <!-- Configure the multipart resolver -->
        <bean id="multipartResolver" class="org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartResolver">
            <!-- one of the properties available; the maximum file size in bytes -->
            <property name="maxUploadSize" value="100000"/>
        </bean>
    <!-- For FileUpload -->
    
        <tx:annotation-driven />
        <bean id="transactionManager"
            class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
            <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
        </bean>
    
    </beans>
    

    When I try to run the application the am getting:

    Updated - stacktrace

    exception
    
    javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.init() for servlet spring threw exception
        org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:462)
        org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
        org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:563)
        org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:403)
        org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:301)
        org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:162)
        org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:140)
        org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:309)
        java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
        java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
        java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
    

    ends root cause

    org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'fileUploadController' defined in file [C:\Software\Server\Tomcat v7\apache-tomcat-7.0.16\webapps\MavenWeb-0.0.1\WEB-INF\classes\net\viralpatel\contact\controller\FileUploadController.class]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class net.viralpatel.contact.controller.FileUploadController
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:965)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:911)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:485)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:190)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:580)
        org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:895)
        org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:425)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:442)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:458)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:339)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:306)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:127)
        javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:160)
        org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:462)
        org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
        org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:563)
        org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:403)
        org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:301)
        org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:162)
        org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:140)
        org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:309)
        java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
        java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
        java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
    root cause
    
    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class net.viralpatel.contact.controller.FileUploadController
        sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
        org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:126)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:74)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:958)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:911)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:485)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:190)
        org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:580)
        org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:895)
        org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:425)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:442)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:458)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:339)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:306)
        org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:127)
        javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:160)
        org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:462)
        org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
        org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:563)
        org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:403)
        org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:301)
        org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:162)
        org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:140)
        org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:309)
        java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
        java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
        java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
    

    I checked classpath and I have it set properly then why not FileUploadController is working? Any suggestions?

    Update: .classpath file for my project

    <classpath>
      <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/java" output="target/test-classes" including="**/*.java"/>
      <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/resources" output="target/test-classes" excluding="**/*.java"/>
      <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/java" including="**/*.java"/>
      <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/resources" excluding="**/*.java"/>
      <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/javax/servlet/jstl/1.1.2/jstl-1.1.2.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/javax/transaction/jta/1.1/jta-1.1.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/javax/persistence/persistence-api/1.0/persistence-api-1.0.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/javax/servlet/servlet-api/2.5/servlet-api-2.5.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/antlr/antlr/2.7.6/antlr-2.7.6.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/aopalliance/aopalliance/1.0/aopalliance-1.0.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/asm/asm/1.5.3/asm-1.5.3.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/asm/asm-attrs/1.5.3/asm-attrs-1.5.3.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/cglib/cglib/2.1_3/cglib-2.1_3.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/commons-collections/commons-collections/3.1/commons-collections-3.1.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/commons-fileupload/commons-fileupload/1.2.2/commons-fileupload-1.2.2.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.0.4/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/commons-pool/commons-pool/1.4/commons-pool-1.4.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/dom4j/dom4j/1.6.1/dom4j-1.6.1.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/net/sf/ehcache/ehcache/1.2.3/ehcache-1.2.3.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/hibernate/ejb3-persistence/1.0.1.GA/ejb3-persistence-1.0.1.GA.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/hibernate/hibernate/3.2.6.ga/hibernate-3.2.6.ga.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/hibernate/hibernate-annotations/3.3.1.GA/hibernate-annotations-3.3.1.GA.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/hibernate/hibernate-commons-annotations/3.0.0.ga/hibernate-commons-annotations-3.0.0.ga.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/hibernate/hibernate-core/3.3.1.GA/hibernate-core-3.3.1.GA.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/hibernate/hibernate-entitymanager/3.3.2.GA/hibernate-entitymanager-3.3.2.GA.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/javassist/javassist/3.4.GA/javassist-3.4.GA.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/log4j/log4j/1.2.16/log4j-1.2.16.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.17/mysql-connector-java-5.1.17.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/1.5.2/slf4j-api-1.5.2.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/slf4j/slf4j-log4j12/1.6.1/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/springframework/spring-aop/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-aop-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/springframework/spring-asm/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-asm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/springframework/spring-beans/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/springframework/spring-context/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-context-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/springframework/spring-context-support/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-context-support-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/springframework/spring-core/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-core-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/springframework/spring-expression/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-expression-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/springframework/spring-jdbc/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-jdbc-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/springframework/spring-orm/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-orm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/springframework/spring-tx/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-tx-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/springframework/spring-web/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-web-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/springframework/spring-webmvc/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-webmvc-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/taglibs/standard/1.1.2/standard-1.1.2.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/xml-apis/xml-apis/1.0.b2/xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar"/>
      <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
    </classpath>
    

    Update

    Just wanted to add an update on this question - finally, i was able to get FileUpload working but I had to start fresh, i created FileUploadController again and did all wiring again and now it seems to be working fine. Still, I am not able to figure out what was the issue of earlier errors.