HTTP Status 500 - No WebApplicationContext found: no ContextLoaderListener or DispatcherServlet registered?

type Exception report

message No WebApplicationContext found: no ContextLoaderListener or DispatcherServlet registered?

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No WebApplicationContext found: no ContextLoaderListener or DispatcherServlet registered?
	org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.doFilter(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:252)
	org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilterInternal(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:121)
	org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/7.0.64 logs.