Basic maven projet with spring 1. Checkout the code using git clone 2. Import Existing Maven Project in Eclipse 3. Build the projects using mvn install eclipse:eclipse from the command line 4. Add tomcat server and right click webapp project -> Run On Server If you get a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener when stating tomcat add the following entry to the .classpath <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.maven.ide.eclipse.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER"> <attributes> <attribute name="org.eclipse.jst.component.dependency" value="/WEB-INF/lib"/> </attributes> </classpathentry>