Error: While running Spring Project, I am getting this error

org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/SpringExample]] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.reload(StandardContext.java:3920) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappLoader.backgroundProcess(WebappLoader.java:426) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.backgroundProcess(ContainerBase.java:1345) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1530) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1540) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1540) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1519) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Lorg/apache/commons/logging/Log; at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredFields(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.util.Introspection.getDeclaredFields(Introspection.java:87) at org.apache.catalina.startup.WebAnnotationSet.loadFieldsAnnotation(WebAnnotationSet.java:261) at org.apache.catalina.startup.WebAnnotationSet.loadApplicationServletAnnotations(WebAnnotationSet.java:140) at org.apache.catalina.startup.WebAnnotationSet.loadApplicationAnnotations(WebAnnotationSet.java:67) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.applicationAnnotationsConfig(ContextConfig.java:405) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:881) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:369) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5173) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) ... 8 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.logging.Log at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1714) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1559) ... 22 more

Solution:

  Include the commons-logging-1.0.4.jar file into the lib path