Before running the app, you need to setup the web.xml, dispatcher-servlet.xml and other property files properly. Let’s update the web.xml file by right-click src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml => Open With Text Editor and then update with below settings:   <?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” xmlns:web=”http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd” xsi:schemaLocation=”http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd” id=”WebApp_ID” version=”2.5″>        <display-name>SpringMVCExample</display-name>        <welcome-file-list>        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>