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I see many posts for this issue, but I'm still not clear how to resolve my issue. I have a Maven app that is working fine with an external instance of Tomcat. I was requested to switch this to an embedded instance of maven so I could run this with the mvn tomcat7:run command.

Fine, but now I get the exception listed below. I don't know what setting is missing. The error message is not helpful because it only lists a relative path: "Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/classes/application.xml]". There is a "/WEB-INF/classes/application.xml" file under my "target" folder that maven is building to, but apparently embedded tomcat is looking somewhere else, except I don't know where or how to tell it to look in "/target/WEB-INF/classes/application.xml"

How do I determine where the embedded tomcat instance is looking for this file ( the entire path, not just the relative path) and how do I update it?

Update - I saw the link you referred me to. It does not help. I have a very specific question that is not addressed in the link you provided: How do I determine where the embedded tomcat instance is looking for this file?

SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/classes/application.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/classes/application.xml] at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:344) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:304) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:181) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:217) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:188) at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:125) at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:129) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:612) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:513) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:444) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:326) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4797) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5291) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/classes/application.xml] at org.springframework.web.context.support.ServletContextResource.getInputStream(ServletContextResource.java:141) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:330)

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  • Please provide detail how you are loading your spring application context. Usually you would do it in your web.xml. Copy paste that please and someone might help. – code4kix Sep 19 '16 at 19:03
  • have you checked this [link](http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-trunk/tomcat7-maven-plugin/run-mojo.html) , because it shows the property for both the classpath/webapps directory as well as the configurationDir – AntJavaDev Sep 19 '16 at 19:07
  • Possible duplicate of [Could not open ServletContext resource \[/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml\]](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22350721/could-not-open-servletcontext-resource-web-inf-applicationcontext-xml) – Michael Peacock Sep 19 '16 at 19:43
  • None of this has helped. How can I log the location where "/WEB-INF/classes/application.xml" is being searched for? – Mr Smith Sep 19 '16 at 20:55
  • Look at the space where the path is given (applicationContext.xml) and try `classpath:/application.xml`. – Joop Eggen Sep 20 '16 at 13:07

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