appclicationContext.xml is being copied to /WEB-INF/classes from src/main/resources
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however tomcat is throwing the error :

     IOException parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml];

Which suggests that tomcat expects the applicationContext.xml to be one directory above where it is copied to. It is bein copied to the **/WEB-INF/*classes*** directory, not just the plain old **/WEB-INF**

I am using maven.