title: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot initialize context because there is already a root application context present
body: <p>When running my webapp, I get the stacktrace listed below every other try. Note that there doesn't seem to be multiple ContextLoader definitions im web.xml as far as I can tell. Moreover, the app runs just fine the second/fourth/etc. time. This behaviour is much harder to debug than if it simply didn't work. Can anyone shed some light on this?</p>
  
  <pre><code> java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot initialize context because there is already a root application context present - check whether you have multiple ContextLoader* definitions in your web.xml!
      at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:299)
      at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:107)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4795)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5221)
      at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:724)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:700)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:714)
      at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:919)
      at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1703)
      at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
      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)
  </code></pre>