Re: Getting a headage..... Cannot find class [...] for bean with name '...' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml];

I am new to Spring so bare with me... based on the "Introduction to
the Spring Framework" on netbeans.org i am trying out a demo/learn
Spring application. Although i THINK i did it right i still am not
able to deploy it from netbeans to my Tomcat 6 server. When i deploy
the application i get the following error in the tomcat.log;

SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener
instance of class
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot
find class [service.KlachtService] for bean with name 'klachtService'
defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml];
nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
service.KlachtService
         at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:
1160)

I do not understand why the KlachtService.java in package service
could not be found. The class does exist in the indicated package and
as far as i understand is correctly defined in the
applicationContext.xml.

web.xml

     <servlet-mapping>
         <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
         <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
     </servlet-mapping>
     <welcome-file-list>
         <welcome-file>redirect.jsp</welcome-file>
     </welcome-file-list>

redirect.jsp

<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<% response.sendRedirect("klachtView.htm"); %>

dispatcher-servlet.xml

     <bean id="urlMapping"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
         <property name="mappings">
             <props>
                 <prop key="klachtView.htm">indexController</prop>

             </props>
         </property>
     </bean>

     <bean class="controller.KlachtFormController" p:klachtService-
ref="klachtService"/>

     <bean id="viewResolver"

class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
           p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/"
           p:suffix=".jsp" />

     <!--
     The index controller.
     -->
     <bean name="indexController"

class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.ParameterizableViewController"
           p:viewName="klachtView" />

applicationContext.xml

     <bean id="klachtService" class="service.KlachtService"/>

sourcepackages
   controller
     Klacht.java
     KlachtFormController.java
   model
   service
     KlachtService.java