Spring - applicationContext.xml cannot be opened because it does not exist

If you use maven, create a directory called resources in the main directory, and then copy your applicationContext.xml into it.

From your java code call:

ApplicationContext appCtx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml");

You should keep your Spring files in another folder, marked as "source" (just like "src" or "resources").

WEB-INF is not a source folder, therefore it will not be included in the classpath (i.e. JUnit will not look for anything there).

I got the same error. I solved it moving the file applicationContext.xmlin a

sub-folder of the srcfolder. e.g:

context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("/com/ejemplo/dao/applicationContext.xml");