applicationContext.xml: Invalid content was found starting with element 'constructor-arg'.

[M Richardson]

My applicationContext.xml file has the following content:


<?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.xsd    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd"> <!-- Define your beans here --> <!-- define the dependency --> <bean id="myFortune" class="com.luv2code.springdemo.HappyFortuneService"> </bean> <bean id="myCoach" class="com.luv2code.springdemo.BaseballCoach"> </bean> <!-- set up constructor injection --> <constructor-arg> ref="myFortune" /> </beans>

However, my <constructor-arg> is underlined in red and the error box is showing the following error:

cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with element 'constructor-arg'. One of '{"http://
 www.springframework.org/schema/beans":import, "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans":alias, 
 "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans":bean, WC[##other:"http://www.springframework.org/
 schema/beans"], "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans":beans}' is expected.

I'm not sure what to make of it. Can someone please direct me to a solution? Thank you.

[M Richardson]

The solution was as follows:

<?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.xsd    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">        <!-- Define your beans here -->        <!-- define the dependency -->    <bean id="myFortuneService"            class="com.luv2code.springdemo.HappyFortuneService">        </bean>         <bean id="myCoach"         class="com.luv2code.springdemo.TrackCoach">                     <!-- set up constructor injection -->         <constructor-arg ref="myFortuneService" />     </bean>     </beans>

[sree ravouri]

thank you !!

[M Richardson]

You're welcome!