Hi ... I'm a bit of a noob w.r.t. alot of this so apologies if this question is obvious or silly. I've been trying to get a simple sample application running with JBoss 5.0 and Spring 2.5.6. I have used the fix provided in https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSPRING-4 and my Root WebApplicationContext is started and created correctly using VFSXmlWebApplicationContext. However when it tries to create the servlet it reverts back to XmlWebApplicationContext and I get afore mentioned FileNotFoundException. Any help would be greatly appreciated ! web.xml | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> | | <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" | xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" | xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee | http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" | version="2.4"> | | <listener> | <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class> | </listener> | | <context-param> | <param-name>contextClass</param-name> | <param-value>org.jboss.spring.factory.VFSXmlWebApplicationContext</param-value> | </context-param> | | <context-param> | <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> | <param-value> | /WEB-INF/applicationContext*.xml | </param-value> | </context-param> | | <servlet> | <servlet-name>amartus</servlet-name> | <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> | <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> | </servlet> | | <servlet-mapping> | <servlet-name>amartus</servlet-name> | <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern> | </servlet-mapping> | | <servlet> | <servlet-name>service</servlet-name> | <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> | <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup> | </servlet> | | <servlet-mapping> | <servlet-name>service</servlet-name> | <url-pattern>/service/*</url-pattern> | </servlet-mapping> | | <welcome-file-list> | <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> | </welcome-file-list> | | </web-app> | Trace ... | 12:41:04,162 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 DEBUG [ContextLoader] - <Published root WebApplicationContext as ServletContext attribute with name [org.springframework.web.context.WebApplicationContext.ROOT]> | 12:41:04,162 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 INFO [ContextLoader] - <Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in 6915 ms> | 12:41:04,193 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 DEBUG [DispatcherServlet] - <Initializing servlet 'amartus'> | 12:41:04,215 INFO [spring]] Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'amartus' | 12:41:04,215 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 INFO [DispatcherServlet] - <FrameworkServlet 'amartus': initialization started> | 12:41:04,216 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 DEBUG [DispatcherServlet] - <Servlet with name 'amartus' will try to create custom WebApplicationContext context of class 'org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext', using parent context [org.jboss.spring.factory.VFSXmlWebApplicationContext@185fdbe: display name [Root WebApplicationContext]; startup date [Mon Jun 22 12:40:57 BST 2009]; root of context hierarchy]> | 12:41:04,221 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 INFO [XmlWebApplicationContext] - <Refreshing org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext@9a34a0: display name [WebApplicationContext for namespace 'amartus-servlet']; startup date [Mon Jun 22 12:41:04 BST 2009]; parent: org.jboss.spring.factory.VFSXmlWebApplicationContext@185fdbe> | 12:41:04,222 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 INFO [XmlBeanDefinitionReader] - <Loading XML bean definitions from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/amartus-servlet.xml]> | 12:41:04,225 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 DEBUG [DefaultDocumentLoader] - <Using JAXP provider [org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl]> | 12:41:04,227 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 DEBUG [PluggableSchemaResolver] - <Loading schema mappings from [META-INF/spring.schemas]> | 12:41:04,300 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 DEBUG [PluggableSchemaResolver] - <Loaded schema mappings: {http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang-2.5.xsd=org/springframework/scripting/config/spring-lang-2.5.xsd, http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang.xsd=org/springfram..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd=org/..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms/spring-jms-2.5.xsd=org/springfr..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd=org/spri..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd=org/springframew..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.0.xsd=org/spring..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.5.xsd=org/spring..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.0.xsd=org/springfram..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool/spring-tool-2.0.xsd=org/spring..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd=org/springfram..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd=org/spri..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool/spring-tool-2.5.xsd=org/spring..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms/spring-jms.xsd=org/springframew..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd=org/spri..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd=org/springframew..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd=org/springfr..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool/spring-tool.xsd=org/springfram..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd=org/springframewor..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-2.0.xsd=org/springfr..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.0.xsd=org/springfr..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd=org/springfr..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-2.5.xsd=org/springfr..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang-2.0.xsd=org/spring..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd=org/springfram... | 12:41:04,301 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 DEBUG [PluggableSchemaResolver] - <Found XML schema [http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd] in classpath: org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-beans-2.5.xsd> | 12:41:04,309 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 DEBUG [PluggableSchemaResolver] - <Found XML schema [http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd] in classpath: org/springframework/context/config/spring-context-2.5.xsd> | 12:41:04,351 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 DEBUG [PluggableSchemaResolver] - <Found XML schema [http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd] in classpath: org/springframework/aop/config/spring-aop-2.5.xsd> | 12:41:04,354 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 DEBUG [DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader] - <Loading bean definitions> | 12:41:04,380 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 DEBUG [DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver] - <Loaded mappings [{http://www.springframework.org/schema/p=org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.SimplePropertyNamespaceHandler, http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang=org.springframework.scripting...., http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee=org.springframework.ejb.config...., http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop=org.springframework.aop.config...., http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms=org.springframework.jms.config...., http://www.springframework.org/schema/util=org.springframework.beans.fact..., http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx=org.springframework.transaction...., http://www.springframework.org/schema/context=org.springframework.context... | 12:41:04,401 INFO [STDOUT] 22-Jun-2009 12:41:04 DEBUG [PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver] - <Cannot search for matching files underneath URL [vfsfile:/C:/dev/jboss-5.0.0.GA/server/default/deploy/common-mgt-fw.spring/WEB-INF/classes/com/amartus/web/] because it does not correspond to a directory in the file system> | java.io.FileNotFoundException: URL [vfsfile:/C:/dev/jboss-5.0.0.GA/server/default/deploy/common-mgt-fw.spring/WEB-INF/classes/com/amartus/web/] cannot be resolved to absolute file path because it does not reside in the file system: vfsfile:/C:/dev/jboss-5.0.0.GA/server/default/deploy/common-mgt-fw.spring/WEB-INF/classes/com/amartus/web/ | at org.springframework.util.ResourceUtils.getFile(ResourceUtils.java:201) | at org.springframework.core.io.UrlResource.getFile(UrlResource.java:156) | at org.springframework.core.io.support.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.doFindPathMatchingFileResources(PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java:517) | | View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4239063#... 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