Configuring SpringMVC with Hibernate using JPA
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Can someone please tell what am I doing wrong here.  All I'm trying to do is hit the mysql database using Spring MVC with JPA configuration.  I'm greeted with error every time I'm running the program. 
    
    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" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
    	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd  
    	http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc 
    	http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
    	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
    	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
    	http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
    	http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd">
    
    	<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:hibernate.properties" />
    
    	<!-- 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/" />
    
    	<!-- Resolves views selected for rendering by @Controllers to .jsp resources 
    		in the /WEB-INF/views directory -->
    	<beans:bean
    		class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
    		<beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
    		<beans:property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    	</beans:bean>
    
    	<context:component-scan base-package="com.logicalideasJPA" />
    
    	<!-- Enables the Spring MVC @Controller programming model -->
    	<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
    
    	<!-- Declare a JPA entityManagerFactory -->
    	<beans:bean id="entityManagerFactory"
    		class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
    		<beans:property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
    		<beans:property name="loadTimeWeaver">
    			<beans:bean
    				class="org.springframework.instrument.classloading.InstrumentationLoadTimeWeaver" />
    		</beans:property>
    		<beans:property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
    			<beans:bean
    				class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
    				<beans:property name="showSql" value="true" />
    			</beans:bean>
    		</beans:property>
    	</beans:bean>
    
    	<!-- Declare a transaction manager -->
    	<beans:bean id="transactionManager"
    		class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
    		<beans:property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
    		<beans:property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
    	</beans:bean>
    
    	<beans:bean id="dataSource"
    		class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
    		<beans:property name="driverClassName" value="${database.driver}" />
    		<beans:property name="url" value="${database.url}" />
    		<beans:property name="username" value="${database.user}" />
    		<beans:property name="password" value="${database.password}" />
    	</beans:bean>
    </beans:beans>
    ----------------------------------------
     org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping#0': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/logicalideas/persistence/Contacts
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:527)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:294)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:225)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:585)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:913)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:464)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:631)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:588)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:645)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:508)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:449)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:133)
	at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:160)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1266)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1185)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1080)
	at  org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5001)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5289)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1525)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1515)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)


  