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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>Continue reading “Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring3Mvc-servlet.xml]”