Unable to run Spring REST application using Tomcat

Question

I have spent the weekend trying to run some simple Spring REST applications. Lots of examples on the net. However, whenever I got to running these, my application would always give me a 404 - Resource not found exception. To ensure I was doing everything right, I even restarted the applications from scratch a few times.

If I go to the project folder and run mvn tomcat7:run the project works as expected. However, when adding the project to my Tomcat7 server inside Eclipse and running it there, I always get a 404 error.

Any ideas on what is going wrong would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I think the problem is src/main/java folder , you said you manually create it. so you did not add it to Source after create it?

Update i just import the code to eclipse,and i modify the Web Module Path ,and it worked. here is the snap:

and the test url

hope this is useful.