java.lang.IllegalStateException: No WebApplicationContext found: no ContextLoaderListener or DispatcherServlet registered error

Question

I am using Spring, Gradle, and Tomcatrunwar for this project, and I keep facing this error.. I have tried different solutions online, but none helped. I just joined the project recently and I am relatively new to servelets My web.xml

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
    id="fineract-platform-provider" version="3.0">


    <display-name>Fineract Platform</display-name>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>filterChainProxy</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>filterChainProxy2</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>filterChainProxy3</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>filterChainProxy</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>filterChainProxy2</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>filterChainProxy3</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>
    <description>A provider of microfinance services which applications can
        consume once authenticated and authorized.</description>

    <!--  =========================================================================
            web.xml is no longer used since the switch to Spring Boot.

            org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.core.boot.war.WebApplicationInitializerConfiguration
            and org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.core.boot.WebXmlConfiguration take its place now.
          =========================================================================
      -->
    <absolute-ordering/>
</web-app>```

I don't have a applicationContext.xml in my project, the IDE creates the spring application context and I can't access the file. So adding a listener for the ContextLoader points that out in a new error,
What can I do, please advice

Answer 1

I added the listener and created applicationContext.xml from an existing appContext.xml in a /META-INF/Spring folder but that creates a bunch of new errors when I try gradlew tomCatRunWar task applicationContext.xml

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<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa" xmlns:sec="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:cache="http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.2.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache/spring-cache.xsd">

    <sec:global-method-security
            pre-post-annotations="enabled" />

    <tx:annotation-driven />

    <context:component-scan
            base-package="org.apache.fineract.accounting.*,
                                          org.apache.fineract.commands.provider,
                                          org.apache.fineract.commands.handler,
                                          org.apache.fineract.commands.service,
                                          org.apache.fineract.commands.*,
                                          org.apache.fineract.accounting.*,
                                          org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.*,
                                          org.apache.fineract.scheduledjobs.*,
                                          org.apache.fineract.organisation.*,
                                          org.apache.fineract.portfolio.loanaccount.*,
                                          org.apache.fineract.portfolio.savings.*,
                                          org.apache.fineract.portfolio.*,
                                          org.apache.fineract.useradministration.*,
                                          org.apache.fineract.mix.*,
                                          org.apache.fineract.template.*,
                                          org.apache.fineract.template.service,
                                          org.apache.fineract.batch">
        <context:exclude-filter expression="org.springframework.stereotype.Controller"
                                type="annotation" />

        <!-- We do NOT want all @Configuration "beans" to be auto-detected by ComponentScan,
             but we want to use / import them explicitly in Tests & Spring Boot applications,
             or other import in other @Configuration, so that we could have mutually exclusive ones.
         -->
        <context:exclude-filter expression="org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration"
                                type="annotation" />
    </context:component-scan>

    <bean id="auditorAware"
          class="org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.core.domain.AuditorAwareImpl" />
    <jpa:auditing auditor-aware-ref="auditorAware" />

    <jpa:repositories base-package="org.apache.fineract.commands.domain" />
    <jpa:repositories base-package="org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.*.domain" />
    <jpa:repositories base-package="org.apache.fineract.accounting.*.domain" />
    <jpa:repositories base-package="org.apache.fineract.useradministration.domain" />
    <jpa:repositories base-package="org.apache.fineract.organisation.*.domain" />
    <jpa:repositories base-package="org.apache.fineract.portfolio.*" />
    <jpa:repositories base-package="org.apache.fineract.mix.domain" />
    <jpa:repositories base-package="org.apache.fineract.scheduledjobs.*" />
    <jpa:repositories base-package="org.apache.fineract.template.domain" />

    <import resource="infrastructure.xml" />

    <import resource="securityContext.xml" />

    <import resource="cache.xml" />

    <bean id="applicationEventMulticaster" class="org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster">
        <property name="taskExecutor">
            <bean class="org.springframework.core.task.SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor"/>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <import resource="spmContext.xml"/>
</beans>

Web.xml

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
    id="fineract-platform-provider" version="3.0">

    <listener>
        <listener-class>
            org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
        </listener-class>
    </listener>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>appContext</param-name>
        <param-value>/META-INF/spring/appContext.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>
   <!--
    <listener>
        <listener-class>
            org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
        </listener-class>
    </listener>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>
-->


    <display-name>Fineract Platform</display-name>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>filterChainProxy</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>filterChainProxy2</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>filterChainProxy3</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>filterChainProxy</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>filterChainProxy2</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>filterChainProxy3</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>
    <description>A provider of microfinance services which applications can
        consume once authenticated and authorized.</description>


    <!--  =========================================================================
            web.xml is no longer used since the switch to Spring Boot.

            org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.core.boot.war.WebApplicationInitializerConfiguration
            and org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.core.boot.WebXmlConfiguration take its place now.
          =========================================================================
      -->


    <absolute-ordering/>
</web-app>```


Link to log file https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OD5XpoJ5JMTbeGMhYelvZWrulIAXe-dDOpGJPsfv-nc/edit?usp=sharing