Unexpected exception parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.

[Saravanakumar Jeyavel]

Hi ,

I am getting the below error when i start up the jboss server. i have the following jars in my lib folder

spring-context-3.2.0.M1
spring-core-3.2.0.M1
spring-aspects-3.2.0.M1
spring-aop-3.2.0.M1
spring-web-3.2.0.M1
spring-beans-3.2.0.M1
spring-webmvc-3.2.0.M1

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected exception parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Class [org.springframework.web.servlet.config.MvcNamespaceHandler] does not implement the NamespaceHandler interface
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:375)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:303)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:280)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:131)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:147)
	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:101)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:389)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:324)
	at org.jboss.seam.ioc.spring.ContextLoader.startupContextLoader(ContextLoader.java:64)
	at org.jboss.seam.ioc.spring.ContextLoader.create(ContextLoader.java:43)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.jboss.seam.util.Reflections.invoke(Reflections.java:22)
	at org.jboss.seam.util.Reflections.invokeAndWrap(Reflections.java:144)
	at org.jboss.seam.Component.callComponentMethod(Component.java:2211)
	at org.jboss.seam.Component.callCreateMethod(Component.java:2134)
	at org.jboss.seam.Component.newInstance(Component.java:2094)
	... 140 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Class [org.springframework.web.servlet.config.MvcNamespaceHandler] does not implement the NamespaceHandler interface
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver.initHandlerMappings(DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver.java:119)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver.<init>(DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver.java:96)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver.<init>(DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver.java:82)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.createDefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:488)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.createReaderContext(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:477)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:458)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:353)

this is all happening when i have the following code in my applicationContext.xml

<context:component-scan base-package="com.test.testpkg" />

schema definition in my application context is,

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
	xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
	http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
	http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd"
	default-lazy-init="true">

i am trying to solve this problem since y'day...but i don't have an idea how to solve it. any help is really appreciated.

Thanks