applicationContext.xml - Can not find definition for element 'beans'

[Mat Anthony]

Hi All,
I'm trying to integrate spring security into my app and get the following error in the applicationContext.xml

org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 5 in XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: <Line 5, Column 263>: XML-24538: (Error) Can not find definition for element 'beans'

The file:applicationContext.xml contains:-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns:sec="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security" xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd">

Has anybody got any clues.

Mat

[Vyas Sanzgiri]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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"
       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

Can you provide the complete application context file?

[abani patra]

Hi,
I have some time ago face problem like that I have used spring 3 all jar file for web, context etc then it solved.

[Mat Anthony]

Hi All,
thanks for your response.
I have cahnged the applicationContext_security.xml file to now contain the following:-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans:beans xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" 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-3.1.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd"> <global-method-security secured-annotations="enabled" jsr250-annotations="enabled"/> <context:annotation-config /> <!-- auto-config="true" It allow us to use @Autowire, @Required and @Qualifier annotations. --> <http auto-config="true" access-denied-page="/faces/accessDenied.xhtml"> <form-login login-page="/faces/login.xhtml" /> <intercept-url pattern="/faces/admin/**" access="ROLE_ADMIN" /> </http> <authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager"> <authentication-provider user-service-ref="userDetailsService" /> </authentication-manager> </beans:beans>

I now get the following error:-
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 11 in XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext_security.xml] is invalid; nested exception is oracle.xml.parser.schema.XSDException: Connection timed out: connect
Caused by: oracle.xml.parser.schema.XSDException: Connection timed out: connect

Here are some of the jar files that i use:-
org.springframework.aop-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.asm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.context-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.context.support-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.core-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.expression-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.orm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.transaction-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.web-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar

spring-hibernate3_2.0.1.jar
spring-jdbc2.5.6.jar
spring-security-config-3_1.0.M2.jar
spring-security-core-3_1.0.M2.jar
spring-security-taglibs-3_1.0.M2.jar
spring-security-web-3_1.0.M2.jar
spring.jar

xmlcomp.jar
xmlparserv2.jar

el-api-2.2.jar
el-impl-2.2.jar

Not sure whats causing this oracle.xml.parser.schema.XSDException: Connection timed out: connect

Mat

[Roberto Perillo]

Howdy, Mat.

Champ, try this: use the file of your first post, create a file named spring.schemas and place it in the META-INF directory of your WAR file. This file should have the following content:

http\://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-beans-3.0.xsd

Please try that and let us know if it works.

[Manoj Kumar abc]

I am working on migration project from websphere to jboss 6.3 eap. When i deploy my application on jboss, i am getting Parser exception as below:


18:41:51,567 ERROR [com.silvermoongroup.was.startup.ejb.EagerClassLoaderBean]
(ServerService Thread Pool -- 77) Error when initialising class: Unable to return
specified BeanFactory instance:
factory key [com.silvermoongroup.common], from group with resource name
[classpath:com/churchmutual/ocns/common/beanRefContext.xml];
nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name 'com.silvermoongroup.common' defined in class path resource
[com/churchmutual/ocns/common/beanRefContext.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed;
nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could
not instantiate bean class
[org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext]:
Constructor threw exception; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 37
in XML document from class path resource [com/silvermoongroup/base/tx/jee-
transaction-context.xml] is invalid; nested exception is
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 37; columnNumber: 82; cvc-elt.1:
Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'.:
org.springframework.beans.factory.access.BootstrapException: Unable to return
specified BeanFactory instance: factory key [com.silvermoongroup.common], from
group with resource name
[classpath:com/churchmutual/ocns/common/beanRefContext.xml]; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean
with name 'com.silvermoongroup.common' defined in class path resource
[com/churchmutual/ocns/common/beanRefContext.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed;
nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could
not instantiate bean class
[org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext]:
Constructor threw exception; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 37
in XML document from class path resource [com/silvermoongroup/base/tx/jee-
transaction-context.xml] is invalid; nested exception is
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 37; columnNumber: 82; cvc-elt.1:
Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'.


So i changed beans xmlns to DTD like this:


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


to


<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN 2.0//EN"
"http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans-2.0.dtd">


and it worked fine, there is no parsing exception as such.
But in one xml having transaction configuration like this:


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


when i changed it to above mentioned DTD, it throwing exception.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 12; columnNumber: 15; Document root element "tx:transaction", must match DOCTYPE root "beans".

Please help me to resolve this issue.