I am completely new to Maven and Spring MVC. What I am looking to do is to set up a new Spring MVC project, using Maven (hopefully this sentence makes sense), and run my web app on Tomcat using Eclipse.
I am following the tutorial at this link and I have a problem with the pom.xml
file:
- Getting Started with Maven and Spring
The tutorial asks to create the folder structure, and to create a pom.xml file. For starters they ask to put this line in pom.xml:
xml 4.0.0org.springsource.greenbeans.mavenexample11.0-SNAPSHOTOur Simple Project
But when I do that, my Eclipse throws an error:
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] The project (D:\projectName\pom.xml) has 1 error
[ERROR] Non-parseable POM D:\projectName\pom.xml: only whitespace content allowed before start tag and not ` (position: START_DOCUMENT seen `... @1:1) @ line 1, column 1 -> [Help 2]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ProjectBuildingException
[ERROR] [Help 2] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ModelParseException
Any idea on what the right minimum pom.xml could be? I tried many things but it didn't work for me...
You need not create folder structure yourself. Maven archtype 'maven-archetype-webapp' does it for you. Here is a good tutorial to guide you through for basic setting up a MVC project in eclipse (and the right approach):
Create Spring MVC dynamic web project with Maven and make it support Eclipse IDE
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.beingjavaguys.sample</groupId>
<artifactId>SampleSpringMaven</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>SampleSpringMaven Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<spring.version>3.0.5.RELEASE</spring.version>
<jdk.version>1.6</jdk.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>SampleSpringMaven</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<configuration>
<url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</url>
<server>my-tomcat</server>
<path>/SampleSpringMaven</path>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0</version>
<configuration>
<source>${jdk.version}</source>
<target>${jdk.version}</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
The minimal pom.xml
file for Spring MVC with Tomcat could be:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.spring.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>minimal-spring</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>4.3.5.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<path>/</path>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
And then:
$ mvn -Dmaven.tomcat.port=8888 tomcat7:run