Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.(AbstractApplicationContext.java:145) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext. (AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:84) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableConfigApplicationContext. (AbstractRefreshableConfigApplicationContext.java:59) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext. (AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:58) at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext. (ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:136) at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext. (ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83) at TestHelloSpring.main(TestHelloSpring.java:7) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) ... 7 more
If you get above error, probably your application is not able to find commons-logging.jar in classpath.
Download the latest version of JAR file from below URL and add it to classpath of your applications classpath
http://commons.apache.org/logging/download_logging.cgi
To know more about Apache Commons Logging, click here