I got this error message today in a new SpringMVC project.
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring3Mvc-servlet.xml] at org.springframework.web.context.support.ServletContextResource.getInputStream(ServletContextResource.java:118) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:328) ... 32 more
To fix this you have to tell the DispatcherServlet where your spring configuration is. This here solved my problem.
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>