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POClassNotFoundException DispatcherServlet when launching Tomcat (Maven dependencies not copied to wtpwebapps)
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    copied!<p>I've run into this problem a few times and only just stumbled upon a (semi-) reliable solution, so thought I would post it here in case it helps anyone else, or in case I forget it, and also to ask if anyone has any idea what the underlying cause is and why my fix works.</p> <p>The problem - I have a spring 3 webapp that I want to use the Run on Server option in Eclipse to run on a Tomcat 7 server. With some projects this just works, but some seem to get in a broken state whereby every time the server starts up I get a class not found: org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.</p> <p>After some investigation I found out that the project's maven dependencies had not been copied to <code>WEB-INF/lib</code> in <code>${PROJECT_LOCATION}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps/</code></p> <p>I tried a lot of things before finally noticing that the project had a warning in the Problems panel:</p> <pre><code>Classpath entry org.maven.ide.eclipse.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER will not be exported or published. Runtime ClassNotFoundExceptions may result. </code></pre> <p>Perhaps I should have noticed this sooner.</p> <p>Anyway, selecting this and performing the "Quick Fix" fixes the issue and I can happily run my project. The quick fix is to: "Mark the associated raw classpath entry as a publish/export dependency".</p> <p>Trouble is, although this works, I don't know what it means. I can't see any obvious changes in my project configuration after it's done. I would quite like to know what the actual problem is and if I can avoid it happening again. I would also like to know if there is something I could have done myself (other than performing the quick fix) that would have fixed it, because I feel like I tried pretty much everything else.</p> <p>Thanks for your help.</p>
 

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