问题：使用SPRING引起的“严重: Error listenerStart”问题 Context [/XXXX] startup failed due to previous errors
1、catalina.out文件
信息: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.20
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.springframework.core.CollectionFactory).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
2011-3-11 15:23:07 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
严重: Error listenerStart
2011-3-11 15:23:07 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
严重: Context [/xxx] startup failed due to previous errors
2011-3-11 15:23:07 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
信息: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
2011-3-11 15:23:07 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
信息: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
2011-3-11 15:23:07 org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
信息: Jk running ID=0 time=0/16 config=null
2011-3-11 15:23:07 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
信息: Server startup in 1128 ms
2、localhost.2011-03-11.log 文件
信息: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
2011-3-11 15:39:56 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
严重: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 17 in XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The entity name must immediately follow the & in the entity reference.
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:404)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:342)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:310)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:149)
at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:124)
at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:92)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:123)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:423)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:353)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:255)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:199)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextIni