Spring 3 with Thymeleaf config issue

Question

Hello I have the following jars in my build path -

spring-beans-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-context-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-core-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-expression-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-web-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-webmvc-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
thymeleaf-spring3-2.0.13.jar

and my servlet

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><br>
<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:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
     xsi:schemaLocation="
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd">

    <context:component-scan base-package="web.controller" />

    <!-- Enabling Spring MVC configuration through annotations -->
    <mvc:annotation-driven />

    <!--  Mapping Static Resources -->
    <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

    <bean id="templateResolver" class="org.thymeleaf.templateresolver.ServletContextTemplateResolver">
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
        <property name="suffix" value=".html" />
        <property name="templateMode" value="HTML5" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="templateEngine" class="org.thymeleaf.spring3.SpringTemplateEngine">
        <property name="templateResolver" ref="templateResolver" />
    </bean>

    <bean class="org.thymeleaf.spring3.view.ThymeleafViewResolver">
        <property name="templateEngine" ref="templateEngine" />
        <property name="order" value="1" />
        <property name="viewNames" value="*.html" />
    </bean>

</beans>

The error I get on launching is -

Cannot find class [org.thymeleaf.templateresolver.ServletContextTemplateResolver] for bean with name 'templateResolver' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/springMVC-servlet.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.thymeleaf.templateresolver.ServletContextTemplateResolver Am I missing any other library here? Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

You are missing the actual Thymeleaf jar. You included the Spring jar that provides the integration but you missed the actual implementation of it.

Download the jar from here

thymeleaf download site