title: Spring Security - Couldn't locate: org.springframework.ldap.core.support.BaseLdapPathContextSource
body: <p>Im having some weird issues using spring security. When i try to start my tomcat server, the following exception is thrown:</p>
  
  <p><code>Couldn't locate: org.springframework.ldap.core.support.BaseLdapPathContextSource.  If you are using LDAP with Spring Security, please ensure that you include the spring-ldap jar file in your application;</code></p>
  
  <p>I have almost every spring library included in my maven dependencies:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>spring-security-web-3.1.4.RELEASE.jar <br/>
    spring-security-core-3.1.4.RELEASE.jar <br/>
    spring-security-config-3.1.4.RELEASE.jar <br/>
    spring-security-ldap-3.1.4.RELEASE.jar<br/>
    spring-security-acl-3.1.4.RELEASE.jar<br/>
    spring-security-taglibs-3.1.4.RELEASE.jar<br/>
    spring-ldap-core-1.3.2.RELEASE.jar<br/>
    spring-core-3.1.4.RELEASE.jar<br/>
    spring-beans-3.1.4.RELEASE.jar<br/>
    spring-aop-3.1.4.RELEASE.jar<br/>
    spring-web-3.1.4.RELEASE.jar<br/>
    spring-context-3.1.4.RELEASE.jar<br/>
    spring-jdbc-3.1.4.RELEASE.jar<br/>
    spring-tx-3.1.4.RELEASE.jar<br/>
    spring-asm-3.1.4.RELEASE.jar<br/>
    spring-expression-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>What could be possibly causing this problem? Thanks in advance.</p>