I have mapped each bean properly in my project so as provided the paths accordingly. The project is working fine on the machine it is created. But when other developers import the project and after successful clean & install, tries to run it, it throws exception. In addition, I have viewed some similar titled question but none worked for me.

NOTE: DAO layer or database layer is created as separate project and included into project as a jar.

**Exception:**

```
2016-02-26 15:09:33,709 [localhost-startStop-1] INFO  org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Overriding bean definition for bean 'artistController' with a different definition: replacing [Generic bean: class [com.ceelive.controller.ArtistController]; scope=singleton; abstract=false; lazyInit=false; autowireMode=0; dependencyCheck=0; autowireCandidate=true; primary=false; factoryBeanName=null; factoryMethodName=null; initMethodName=null; destroyMethodName=null; defined in file [D:\ceelive-workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\ceelive\WEB-INF\classes\com\ceelive\controller\ArtistController.class]] with [Generic bean: class [com.ceelive.controller.ArtistController]; scope=; abstract=false; lazyInit=false; autowireMode=0; dependencyCheck=0; autowireCandidate=true; primary=false; factoryBeanName=null; factoryMethodName=null; initMethodName=null; destroyMethodName=null; defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/servlet/ceeliveservlet/servlet-context.xml]]
2016-02-26 15:09:33,921 [localhost-startStop-1] WARN  org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext - Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'artistController' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/servlet/ceeliveservlet/servlet-context.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/ceelive/dao/manager/artist/ArtistDao
2016-02-26 15:09:33,921 [localhost-startStop-1] ERROR org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'artistController' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/servlet/ceeliveservlet/servlet-context.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/ceelive/dao/manager/artist/ArtistDao
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:553)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:306)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:197)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:772)
 at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:839)
 at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:538)
 at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:668)
 at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:634)
 at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:682)
 at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:553)
 at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:494)
 at org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:136)
 at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1238)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1151)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1038)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4997)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5289)
 at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:147)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1408)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1398)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/ceelive/dao/manager/artist/ArtistDao
 at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
 at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2701)
 at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1975)
 at org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.getDeclaredMethods(ReflectionUtils.java:609)
 at org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.doWithMethods(ReflectionUtils.java:521)
 at org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.doWithMethods(ReflectionUtils.java:507)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.determineCandidateConstructors(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:241)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.determineConstructorsFromBeanPostProcessors(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1069)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1042)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:510)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:306)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:197)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:351)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:108)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1481)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1226)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanF...

```

**pom.xml**

```
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.cimple</groupId>
  <artifactId>ceelive</artifactId>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>ceelive Maven Webapp</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <dependencies>

        <!-- Spring Dependencies-->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
            <version>4.2.4.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
            <version>4.2.4.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
            <version>4.2.4.RELEASE</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                    <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Need this for json to/from object -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
            <version>2.1.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.1.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- jstl Servlet -->
        <dependency>
          <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
          <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
          <version>1.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl</groupId>
            <artifactId>jstl-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.2</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Logging -->
        <!-- <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.14</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
            <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.3</version>
        </dependency> -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.14</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.14</version>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.14</version>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.16</version>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <!-- Apache tiles -->
        <dependency>
           <groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
           <artifactId>tiles-api</artifactId>
           <version>2.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
           <groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
           <artifactId>tiles-core</artifactId>
           <version>2.2.2</version>
               <!-- <exclusions>
                    <exclusion>
                      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                      <artifactId>slf4j-jdk14</artifactId>
                    </exclusion>
               </exclusions> -->
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
           <groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
           <artifactId>tiles-jsp</artifactId>
           <version>2.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
           <groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
           <artifactId>tiles-servlet</artifactId>
           <version>2.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
           <groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
           <artifactId>tiles-template</artifactId>
           <version>2.2.2</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- compile only, runtime container will provide this -->
        <!-- Need this for config annotation -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

    <!-- ceeliveDAO - Custom dependency -->
    <dependency>
         <groupId>com.cimple</groupId>
         <artifactId>ceeliveDAO</artifactId>
         <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

  <build>
    <finalName>ceelive</finalName>

          <pluginManagement>
        <plugins>

            <!-- <plugin>
              <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
              <artifactId>tomcat6-maven-plugin</artifactId>
              <version>2.2</version>
            </plugin> -->
            <plugin>
              <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
              <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
              <version>2.2</version>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
              <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
              <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
              <version>3.3</version>
              <configuration>
                <source>1.8</source>
                <target>1.8</target> 
              </configuration>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
                <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>9.2.11.v20150529</version>
                <configuration>
                    <scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds>
                    <webApp>
                        <contextPath>/spring4ajax</contextPath>
                    </webApp>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.10</version>
                <configuration>
                    <downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
                    <downloadJavadocs>true</downloadJavadocs>
                    <wtpversion>2.0</wtpversion>
                    <wtpContextName>spring4ajax</wtpContextName>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.6</version>
                <configuration>
                    <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>it.session.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>tiles-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${maventiles.plugin.version}</version>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
            </plugin>
         </plugins>
      </pluginManagement>
  </build>
</project>

```

**web.xml**

```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">
  <display-name>service</display-name>

    <!-- Deafult pages -->
    <welcome-file-list>
       <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>

    <!-- The definition of the Root Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>/WEB-INF/servlet/root-context.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <!-- Creates the Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>

    <!-- Log listner -->
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-class>
    </listener>

    <!-- Processes application requests -->
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>ceelive</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>/WEB-INF/servlet/ceeliveservlet/servlet-context.xml</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <!-- Servlet Mapping -->
   <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>ceelive</servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

```

**servlet-context.xml**

```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">

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

    <!-- DispatcherServlet Context: defines this servlet's request-processing infrastructure -->

    <!-- Enables the Spring MVC @Controller programming model -->
    <annotation-driven />

    <!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by efficiently serving up static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources directory -->
    <resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

    <!-- Event Dao Bean -->
    <beans:bean id="eventDao" class="com.ceelive.dao.manager.event.EventDaoImpl">
    </beans:bean>
    <!-- Artist Dao Bean -->
    <beans:bean id="artistDao" class="com.ceelive.dao.manager.artist.ArtistDaoImpl">
    </beans:bean>
    <!-- Event Service Bean -->
    <beans:bean id="eventService" class="com.ceelive.service.event.EventServiceImpl">
        <beans:property name="eventDao" ref="eventDao"></beans:property>
    </beans:bean>
    <!-- Artist Service Bean -->
    <beans:bean id="artistService" class="com.ceelive.service.artist.ArtistServiceImpl">
        <beans:property name="artistDao" ref="artistDao"></beans:property>
    </beans:bean>
    <!-- Event Controller Bean -->
    <beans:bean id="eventController" class="com.ceelive.controller.EventController">
        <beans:property name="eventService" ref="eventService"></beans:property>
        <beans:property name="beanUtil" ref="beanUtil"></beans:property>
    </beans:bean>
    <!-- Artist Controller Bean -->
    <beans:bean id="artistController" class="com.ceelive.controller.ArtistController">
        <beans:property name="artistService" ref="artistService"></beans:property>
        <beans:property name="beanUtil" ref="beanUtil"></beans:property>
    </beans:bean>
    <!-- BeanUtil bean -->
    <beans:bean id="beanUtil" class="com.ceelive.utility.BeanUtil">
    <!-- HibernateConfiguration bean -->
    </beans:bean>
       <beans:bean id="hibernateConfiguration" class="com.ceelive.configuration.HibernateConfiguration">
    </beans:bean>
    <!-- Resolves views selected for rendering by @Controllers to .jsp resources in the /WEB-INF/views directory -->
        <beans:bean id="tilesConfigurer"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
        <beans:property name="definitions">
            <beans:list>
                <beans:value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</beans:value>
            </beans:list>
        </beans:property>
    </beans:bean>
    <beans:bean id="tilesViewResolver"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
        <beans:property name="viewClass">
            <beans:value>
                org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView
            </beans:value>
        </beans:property>
        <beans:property name="order" value="0"/>
    </beans:bean>

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.frameworkonly.tilesapp" />
</beans:beans>

```