first of all, thanks Christophe for the help. But the job is still not done. What i did is as follows :
Step 1: i first created a xml file with the name applicationContext.xml in the resources folder
Step 2 : i created a file messages.properties in the same resources folder
Step 3 : i included the following jar files in the lib folder :
commons--logging-1.1.1.jar and spring.jar
Step 4 : i did the following changes in the web.xml file :
Step 5 : i made a
jsp, included the following two tags in it
and
And on execution of this application on
Eclipse IDE, i receive the following exception
Please help, i am unable to move ahead from this point in my application.