Spring Classes not found in eclipse

Question

I am new to spring and i am trying to build a spring application using SpringSource Tool Suite. I installed STS from the .sh file available. I tried to do the following :

ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("beans.xml");

But eclipse is not able to find these classes. How do I add this class to eclipse. If I need to import certain JAR's where do i find them?

Answer 1

They need to be in the CLASSPATH . That's where Spring looks for .xml context files when you use the ClassPathXmlApplicationContext class.

Put JARs, including Spring, in the WEB-INF/lib directory. If you put your .xml files in the WEB-INF/classes folder they'll be in the CLASSPATH by default.

Answer 2

here you go: http://www.springsource.org/download . First shot at google ( spring download ).

Answer 3

Start with a Spring Template project.

New Project/SpringSource Tool Suite/Spring Template Project/

then select one, for example "spring MVC Project".

This projects are maven based, so they will download the needed/specified jars automaticaly.