Points To Remember You need to add the following dependencies to pom.xml spring-core spring-context spring-web spring-webmvc spring-tx spring-orm mysql-connector-java jstl hibernate Create Maven Spring Hibernate Sitemesh Annotation based Hello World project pom.xml pom.xml should contain the following dependencies <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>org.springframework.samples.service.service</groupId> <artifactId>ekiras</artifactId> <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>war</packaging> <properties> <java.version>1.7</java.version> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> <project.reporting.outputEncodi...