problem while loading the welcome page

[Keerthi Kumar]

Dear All,

I have developed one simple web application using spring, by getting the code from the internet. But when I start the application, the welcome file is not being loaded at all. Request you to please help me to resolve this issue. Even though my spring context file name is dispatcher-servlet.xml, I am getting the below weird exception.

SEVERE: Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:320)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:290)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:142)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:158)

dispatcher-servlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

	<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver" 
			p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/" p:suffix=".jsp" />
    <bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource" p:basename="messages" />
    <bean id="userService" class="com.Validation.Demo.Service.UserServiceImpl" />
    <bean id="userValidator" class="com.Validation.Demo.Validator.UserValidator" />
		
	<!--<bean name="/userRegistration.htm" class="com.Validation.Demo.Web.UserController" 
		  	p:userService-ref="userService" p:formView="userForm" 
		  	p:successView="userSuccess" p:validator-ref="userValidator">
		  <property name="commandClass" value="com.Validation.Demo.Domain.User"/>
	</bean>-->
	
	<bean name="/userForm.htm" class="com.Validation.Demo.Web.UserController">
		<property name="sessionForm" value="true"/>     
		<!--<property name="user" ref="user" />  
        <property name="commandName" value="user"/>      
        <property name="commandClass" value="com.Validation.Demo.Domain.User"/>    
        --><property name="formView" value="userForm"/>   
        <property name="successView" value="userSuccess"/>   
	</bean>
	
</beans>

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
  <display-name>Spring Validations Demo</display-name>
  
  <context-param>
  	<param-name>contextConfiguration</param-name>
  	<param-value>/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml</param-value>
  </context-param>
  
  <listener>
		<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
  </listener>
  
  <servlet>
        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>/WEB-INF/jsp/redirect.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

[Prasad Krishnegowda]

  <listener>  
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>  
  </listener>   

The above listener code searches for a file named applicationContext.xml.. Also, we can initialize other files using the context-param.
You tell when you start the application, welcome page is not loaded at all, this means what you get in browser/server, 404 exception or what? please TelltheDetails.

[Keerthi Kumar]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your mail, when i start the browser, I am getting the below exception:

HTTP Status 404 - /SpringValidationDemo/

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

type Status report

message /SpringValidationDemo/

description The requested resource (/SpringValidationDemo/) is not available.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache Tomcat/6.0.20

Request you to please help me to resolve this issue.

[Prasad Krishnegowda]

<welcome-file-list>  
        <welcome-file>/WEB-INF/jsp/redirect.jsp</welcome-file>  
    </welcome-file-list> 

Just noticed this now, you can't directly access jsp's inside WEB-INF, so only we keep jsp inside WEB-INF, so its secure.. take the redirect.jsp out and put in WebContent. Also, post that redirect.jsp and also post the server logs when the application is deployed.

[Keerthi Kumar]

Hi,

I have now commented the below code:

<context-param>
  	<param-name>contextConfiguration</param-name>
  	<param-value>/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml</param-value>
  </context-param>
  
  <listener>
		<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
  </listener>

But now I am getting the below error in the browser after the server start from my userForm.jsp:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /WEB-INF/jsp/userForm.jsp(33,7) Attribute label invalid for tag radiobutton according to TLD
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:40)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:407)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:236)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator$ValidateVisitor.checkXmlAttributes(Validator.java:1200)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator$ValidateVisitor.visit(Validator.java:821)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$CustomTag.accept(Node.java:1530)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Nodes.visit(Node.java:2361)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Visitor.visitBody(Node.java:2411)

userForm.jsp code

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
	pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form"%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Registration Page</title>
<style>
.error {
color: #ff0000;
font-style: italic;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<form:form method="POST" commandName="user">
	<table>
 		<tr>
 			<td>User Name :</td>
 			<td><form:input path="name" /></td>
 			<td><form:errors path="name" cssClass="error" /></td>
 		</tr>
 		<tr>
 			<td>Password :</td>
 			<td><form:password path="password" /></td>
 			<td><form:errors path="password" cssClass="error" /></td>
 		</tr>
 		<tr>
 			<td>Gender :</td>
 			<td><form:radiobutton path="gender" value="M" label="M" /> 
 				<form:radiobutton path="gender" value="F" label="F" /></td>
 			<td><form:errors path="gender" cssClass="error" /></td>	
 		</tr>
 		<tr>
 			<td>Country :</td>
 			<td><form:select path="country">
 				<form:option value="" label="Select" />
 				<form:option value="1" label="India" />
 				<form:option value="2" label="USA" />
 				<form:option value="3" label="UK" />
 			</form:select></td>
 			<td><form:errors path="country" cssClass="error" /></td>
 		</tr>
 		<tr>
 			<td>About you :</td>
 			<td><form:textarea path="aboutYou" /></td>
 			<td><form:errors path="aboutYou" cssClass="error" /></td>
 		</tr>
 		<tr>
 			<td>Community :</td>
 			<td><form:checkbox path="community" value="Spring"
 				label="Spring" /> <form:checkbox path="community" value="Hibernate"
 				label="Hibernate" /> <form:checkbox path="community" value="Struts"
 				label="Struts" /></td>
 			<td><form:errors path="community" cssClass="error" /></td>
 		</tr>
 		<tr>
 			<td ><form:checkbox path="mailingList"
 				label="Would you like to join our mailinglist?" /></td>
 		</tr>
 		<tr>
 			<td ><input type="submit" value="Register"></td>
 		</tr>
 	</table>
</form:form>

</body>
</html>

[Prasad Krishnegowda]

Remove the attribute label for the mentioned tag.. Its not valid as per the taglib definition..
You might want to take a look into this one for knowing what attributes are valid for the spring form taglib..
http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/reference/spring-form.tld.html

[Keerthi Kumar]

Hi,

As per your previous comment, I removed the label tag from the jsp. That issue got resolved. But now I am getting the below mentioned error:

SEVERE: Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name 'user' available as request attribute
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name 'user' available as request attribute

onSubmit method of my controller class:

protected ModelAndView onSubmit(Object command, BindException errors) throws Exception{
		System.out.println("Inside UserController.ModelAndView.onSubmit()");
		User user = (User) command;
		userService.addUser(user);
		return new ModelAndView("userSuccess","user",user);
	}

This application is about the validations in spring framework. Please help me to resolve this issue

[Prasad Krishnegowda]

Where are you setting your commandClass, in dispatcher-servlet.xml or controller.. in dispatcher-servlet.xml i see them commented..
If you are setting in controller class can you post them here..
If no, uncomment these two line from your dispatcher-servlet.xml

 <property name="commandName" value="user"/>        
        <property name="commandClass" value="com.Validation.Demo.Domain.User"/>  

[Keerthi Kumar]

Hi,

Thanks a lot. It is working fine now Thanks for all your help

[Mark Spritzler]

shyampriya soni,
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