I tried the alternative to ContextLoadListener, which is ContextLoadServlet and it still fails just the same, but with a slightly longer stack trace:
Starting Jetty on port 8888 [WARN] EXCEPTION java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderServlet at java.lang.ClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader.loadClass(WebAppClassLoader.java: 352) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader.loadClass(WebAppClassLoader.java: 337) at org.mortbay.util.Loader.loadClass(Loader.java:91) at org.mortbay.util.Loader.loadClass(Loader.java:71) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Holder.doStart(Holder.java:73) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.doStart(ServletHolder.java: 233) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 39) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize(ServletHandler.java: 616) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:140) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java: 1220) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java: 513) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java: 448) at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.jetty.JettyLauncher $WebAppContextWithReload.doStart(JettyLauncher.java:447) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 39) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java: 130) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.RequestLogHandler.doStart(RequestLogHandler.java: 115) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 39) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java: 130) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:222) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 39) at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.jetty.JettyLauncher.start(JettyLauncher.java: 543) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevMode.doStartUpServer(DevMode.java:421) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevModeBase.startUp(DevModeBase.java:1035) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevModeBase.run(DevModeBase.java:783) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevMode.main(DevMode.java:275) [WARN] failed context javax.servlet.UnavailableException: org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderServlet at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Holder.doStart(Holder.java:79) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.doStart(ServletHolder.java: 233) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 39) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize(ServletHandler.java: 616) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:140) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java: 1220) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java: 513) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java: 448) at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.jetty.JettyLauncher $WebAppContextWithReload.doStart(JettyLauncher.java:447) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 39) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java: 130) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.RequestLogHandler.doStart(RequestLogHandler.java: 115) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 39) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java: 130) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:222) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 39) at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.jetty.JettyLauncher.start(JettyLauncher.java: 543) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevMode.doStartUpServer(DevMode.java:421) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevModeBase.startUp(DevModeBase.java:1035) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevModeBase.run(DevModeBase.java:783) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevMode.main(DevMode.java:275) [WARN] Failed startup of context com.google.gwt.dev.shell.jetty.JettyLauncher $webappcontextwithrel...@1016632{/,J:\Programming\GWT\cabs1\war} javax.servlet.UnavailableException: org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderServlet at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Holder.doStart(Holder.java:79) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.doStart(ServletHolder.java: 233) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 39) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize(ServletHandler.java: 616) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:140) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java: 1220) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java: 513) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java: 448) at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.jetty.JettyLauncher $WebAppContextWithReload.doStart(JettyLauncher.java:447) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 39) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java: 130) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.RequestLogHandler.doStart(RequestLogHandler.java: 115) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 39) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java: 130) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:222) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 39) at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.jetty.JettyLauncher.start(JettyLauncher.java: 543) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevMode.doStartUpServer(DevMode.java:421) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevModeBase.startUp(DevModeBase.java:1035) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevModeBase.run(DevModeBase.java:783) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevMode.main(DevMode.java:275) On Feb 15, 9:51 pm, Paul S <paulsschw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any further thoughts on this from anyone? It seems a lot like a > problem between Jetty (imposed by GWT) and Spring 3.0, but then how is > it possible that I am the only one/first one to face this issue? My > actual project code is very simple so I've managed to isolate the > problem down to Jetty not wanting to load an applicationContext.xml > file. > > Any idea? I can put my code up if anyone can tell me what they need to > see? > > Thanks, > Paul > > On Feb 15, 8:02 pm, Paul S <paulsschw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I believe so, I downloaded spring 3 and the actual jar in question > > would be this one: org.springframework.web-3.0.0.RELEASE.jar > > However, in my frustration I just copied ALL the springframework > > modules and pasted them into my WEB-INF/lib folder just to be sure, > > but still the same issue. > > Normally ClassNotFoundException is easy to solve, as a last resort I > > go to findjar.com and download the nearest match. But this one is > > strange. I used to develop using a GWT + GWT-SL + Gilead + Spring + > > Hibernate + Tomcat stack and all went smoothly, but now I'm not sure > > what the offending component is. > > > On Feb 15, 7:56 pm, Paul Grenyer <paul.gren...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > [WARN] Could not instantiate listener > > > > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener > > > > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > > > > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener > > > > Have you got all the necessary Spring JARs in WEB-INF/lib? > > > > -- > > > Thanks > > > Paul > > > > Paul Grenyer > > > e: paul.gren...@gmail.com > > > b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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