Problem with ClassPathXmlApplicationContext

[Alejandro Barrero]

I am getting
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 1 in XML document from class path resource [spring-idol.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 36; White space is required before the encoding pseudo attribute in the XML declaration.

[Tim Cooke]

Let's see your spring-idol.xml file then?

[Alejandro Barrero]

Thank you, this is my file:

<?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: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-3.0.xsd">

	<bean id="duke" class="com.springinaction.springidol.Juggler" />
	
</beans>

[Tim Cooke]

Looks like it's telling you that you need some whitespace before the 'encoding' attribute on the first line. Try this:
<?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: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-3.0.xsd"> <bean id="duke" class="com.springinaction.springidol.Juggler" /> </beans>

[Alejandro Barrero]

Thank you very much; I just got the XML from the book "Spring In Action".

[Tim Cooke]

Did that solve your problem?

It's always preferred to download the example source code from the publisher site, when available. See -> Manning: Spring In Action