Spring - Error creating bean
<p>I'm very new to JAVA web applications so keep this in mind. I've taken on a very big project, it's daunting. I finally got the Maven dependancies fixed and am now getting my first errors when running on Tomcat.</p>

<p>What does this error mean please? How does one fix go about fixing it?</p>

<p>What does Autowired do?</p>

<p>What does Hibernate Session Factory do? Could a bad jdbc.properties file settings screw everything up?</p>

<pre><code>SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'billfoldApplicationDaoImpl': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire method: public void eu.digient.billfold.support.dao.AbstractBaseDao.init(org.hibernate.SessionFactory); nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot find class [eu.digient.billfold.goshgame.game.level.ItemConfigFactoryImpl] for bean with name 'itemConfigFactoryImpl' defined in URL [jar:file:/Users/Stu/Development/EclipseFresh/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps/crazyowls-demo-web/WEB-INF/lib/crazyowls-game-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/ctx-grazyowl-game.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: eu.digient.billfold.goshgame.game.level.ItemConfigFactoryImpl
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:289)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1146)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:296)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:293)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:628)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:932)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:479)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:410)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:306)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:112)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4791)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5285)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire method: public void eu.digient.billfold.support.dao.AbstractBaseDao.init(org.hibernate.SessionFactory); nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot find class [eu.digient.billfold.goshgame.game.level.ItemConfigFactoryImpl] for bean with name 'itemConfigFactoryImpl' defined in URL [jar:file:/Users/Stu/Development/EclipseFresh/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps/crazyowls-demo-web/WEB-INF/lib/crazyowls-game-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/ctx-grazyowl-game.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: eu.digient.billfold.goshgame.game.level.ItemConfigFactoryImpl
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredMethodElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:604)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:87)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:286)
... 22 more
 Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot find class [eu.digient.billfold.goshgame.game.level.ItemConfigFactoryImpl] for bean with name 'itemConfigFactoryImpl' defined in URL [jar:file:/Users/Stu/Development/EclipseFresh/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps/crazyowls-demo-web/WEB-INF/lib/crazyowls-game-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/ctx-grazyowl-game.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: eu.digient.billfold.goshgame.game.level.ItemConfigFactoryImpl
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1281)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.predictBeanType(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:575)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.isFactoryBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1350)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doGetBeanNamesForType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:355)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeanNamesForType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:334)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactoryUtils.beanNamesForTypeIncludingAncestors(BeanFactoryUtils.java:187)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.findAutowireCandidates(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:897)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:855)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:770)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredMethodElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:561)
... 24 more
 Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: eu.digient.billfold.goshgame.game.level.ItemConfigFactoryImpl
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1714)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1559)
at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:255)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinition.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanDefinition.java:416)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doResolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1302)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1273)
... 33 more
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<p>Spring Config for module containing eu.digient.billfold.goshgame.game.level.ItemConfigFactoryImpl:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
 &lt;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:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
   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/util
                       http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.1.xsd"&gt;
&lt;context:annotation-config /&gt;

&lt;context:component-scan base-package="eu.digient.billfold.goshgame.game"/&gt;

&lt;context:property-placeholder properties-ref="goshgameProperties" ignore-unresolvable="true" /&gt;
&lt;util:properties id="goshgameProperties" location="classpath:goshgame.properties" /&gt;

&lt;bean id="itemConfigFactoryImpl" class="eu.digient.billfold.goshgame.game.level.ItemConfigFactoryImpl"&gt;
    &lt;property name="properties" ref="goshgameProperties"/&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;
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