Spring MVC – Configuration : Cannot locate BeanDefinitionParser for element [default-servlet-handler]-Collection of common programming errors

I’d like to see your xml, but barring that, it sounds like you simply have a classpath issue. Make sure spring-webmvc-VERSION.jar is in your classpath at runtime. If you are using maven, it would look something like this in your pom:

...

    org.springframework
    spring-webmvc
    ${your.spring.version}

...

That jar contains the namespace utils, including the proper parser, for the element (amongst others.)