org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException however the class does exist

[Daniel Goldman]

Hi,

I was curious what could be the reason for this org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException. I looked into the war file, and the class does exists. However, Tomcat 7 is complaining that it cannot find the class defined in application-context.xml. What else should I check?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Daniel,
Welcome to CodeRanch!

It could e be a "transitive" error. Does the constructor of that class do anything? Or maybe it has a static initializer? If either of those fail/can't be found, you won't be able to load the main bean.

[Daniel Goldman]

Thank you for the answer. I figured out why it was not working. It extended another class, which was not in the classpath.