Spring Application Context exception: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'

[Kunal Sathe]

Hello All,

I am fairly new to Spring and hence this question. When I deploy the existing spring applcation to a tomcat web server, I get the following exception:

   org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd', because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>.
        at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.warning(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.reportSchemaWarning(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.getSchemaDocument(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.parseSchema(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadSchema(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.findSchemaGrammar(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.handleStartElement(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.startElement(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl$NSContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
 

The following is a snippet from the applicationContext.xml.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!-- =========== main spring configuration file of App -->

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">



	<!--
		Configurer that replaces ${...} placeholders with values from a
		properties file
	-->
	<!--
		(in this case, JDBC/JMS-related settings for the bean definitions
		below)
	-->
	<!--<bean id="propertyConfigurer"
		class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
		<property name="location">
			<value>/WEB-INF/classes/deployment.properties
			</value>
		</property>
	</bean>  

Can someone please point me in the right direction to resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance.

Kunal

[Kunal Sathe]

Never mind. I resolved this issue. I have a spring.schemas file in the META-INF folder within the spring.jar
That file has an entry

   http\://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-beans-2.0.xsd 

I changed my application context file from

  <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
	[b]http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd"[/b]>  

to

  <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
	[b]http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd"[/b]>  

since the spring.schemas file has a mapping for spring-beans.xsd and not for spring-beans.xsd.

It seems to work fine now.

Kunal