org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "beans", must match DOCTYPE root "null".

hello ranches,
While working with Spring and jdbc,getting the attached error,

HTTP Status 500 -

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type Exception report

message

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

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.init() for servlet application threw exception
	org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
	org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
	org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:868)
	org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:663)
	org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
	org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
	org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
	java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

root cause

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 14 in XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/application-service.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "beans", must match DOCTYPE root "null".
	org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:229)
	org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:173)
	org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148)
	org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:126)
	org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:142)
	org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:126)
	org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94)
	org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:89)
	org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:269)
	org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:134)
	org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
	org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
	org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderServlet.init(ContextLoaderServlet.java:83)
	javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:211)
	org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:536)
	sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
	org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:275)
	org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.12 logs.

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Apache Tomcat/5.5.12

kindly give in your suggestions.

Hello Ankita,

It seems there is some problem with application-service.xml. You haven't mapped your bean properly. I would interested to see that file.

thnks vishal,but my issues was solved...
problem was with some jar files....

thanks anyways....

Nice to hear Ankita!