Spring Maven Web App - Provided Scope

Question

I'm looking for a way to deploy a maven web application using Spring Framework 4.3.13. Everything is working fine when the jars are included (compile scope). I would like to exclude the jar files using (provided scope). I have Wildfly 9 as my application server and I created the spring framework module. But when I remove the jars the application is not working. No errors thrown! http://localhost:8080/springwebapp1 should display a welcome message, but it's not. It displays Forbidden. I have been searching for an example how to do this and I haven't found one yet! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

This is my configuration: application root

Pom.xml

<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.acs.springmvc</groupId>
  <artifactId>springwebapp1</artifactId>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>springwebapp1 Maven Webapp</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>    
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>        
  </dependencies>
  <build>
    <finalName>springwebapp1</finalName>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.7.0</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>                
                    <outputDirectory>${deploy.dir}</outputDirectory>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins> 
  </build>
  <properties>
    <deploy.dir>C:\javatools\AppServers\wildfly-9.0.1.Final\standalone\deployments</deploy.dir>
    <springframework.version>4.3.13.RELEASE</springframework.version>
  </properties>  
</project>

I created the spring modules in Wildfly, (org.springframework) module.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.3" name="org.springframework">
  <resources>
    <resource-root path="spring-aop-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-aspects-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-beans-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-context-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-context-support-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-core-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-expression-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-instrument-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-instrument-tomcat-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-jdbc-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-jms-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-messaging-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-orm-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-oxm-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-test-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-tx-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-web-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-webmvc-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-webmvc-portlet-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="spring-websocket-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar"/>
  </resources>
  <dependencies>
    <module name="javax.api" export="true"/>
    <module name="javaee.api"/>
    <module name="org.apache.commons.logging"/>
    <module name="org.jboss.vfs"/>
    <module name="org.hibernate"/>
    <module name="javax.el.api" export="true"/>
    <module name="com.sun.xml.bind" export="true"/> 
  </dependencies>
</module>

I also tried adding the jboss-deployment-structure.xml to the war file. (I placed in the WEB-INF) and it's been included.

<jboss-deployment-structure>
    <deployment>
        <dependencies>
            <module name="org.apache.commons.logging"/>
            <module name="org.springframework" slot="main" export="true" meta-inf="export"/>
        </dependencies>
    </deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>

Here the java classes: ApplicationConfig.java

package com.acs.config;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.acs")
public class ApplicationConfig
{

}

ApplicationInitializer.java

package com.acs.config;

import org.springframework.web.servlet.support.AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer;

public class ApplicationInitializer extends AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer
{
     @Override
        protected Class<?>[] getRootConfigClasses() {
            return new Class[] { ApplicationConfig.class };
        }

        @Override
        protected Class<?>[] getServletConfigClasses() {
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        protected String[] getServletMappings() {
            return new String[] { "/" };
        }
}

HelloRestController.java

package com.acs.controllers;

import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

import com.acs.pojos.Message;

@RestController
public class HelloRestController {

    @RequestMapping("/")
    public String welcome() {//Welcome page, non-rest
        return "Welcome to RestTemplate Example.";
    }

    @RequestMapping("/hello/{player}")
    public Message message(@PathVariable String player) {//REST Endpoint.

        Message msg = new Message(player, "Hello " + player);
        return msg;
    }
}