STS 3.1.0.RELEASE not working out of the box for creating SPRING MVC Application

[lalit sahoo]

Hi,

Here is what I did:
1. I downloaded STS 3.1.0
2. I created a Spring MVC application using the template in STS. No new code has been added from my side yet.
3. I did a build of the Spring MVC application within STS and that worked without a problem
4. I deployed the MVC application to the bundled server: “VMWare vFabric tc Server Developer Edition v2.7” and attempted to start it.

But I am getting following error:

ERROR: org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization failed
 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/expression/PropertyAccessor
 at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplic ationContext.prepareBeanFactory(AbstractApplicatio nContext.java:538)
 at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplic ationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.ja va:439)
 at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.conf igureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader .java:385)
 at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.init WebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:284)
 at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListe ner.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java: 111)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerS tart(StandardContext.java:4791)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInte rnal(StandardContext.java:5285)
 at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(Lifec ycleBase.java:150)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInt ernal(ContainerBase.java:901)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(Co ntainerBase.java:877)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(Sta ndardHost.java:618)
 

I am new to spring. Also I am not able to move forward.

Can anyone please help me in resolving this issue?

Regards,
Lalit