Bug?

[henry lu]

I have two bean definition files: datasource_beans.xml and app_beans.xml
and I place these file names in the web.xml file and start web app
server, it works fine.

But, when I place the code in the program for junit testing, I got the
errors:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionSt oreException: Line 68
in XML document from file
[C:\devel\webapps\awards\WEB-INF\app_beans.xml] is invalid; nested
exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An element with the
identifier "dataSource" must appear in the document.
java.lang.NullPointerException
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionSt oreException: Line 68
in XML document from file
[C:\devel\webapps\awards\WEB-INF\app_beans.xml] is invalid; nested
exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An element with the
identifier "dataSource" must appear in the document.

Here is my code:

org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext ctx = null;
String[] paths = {"/WEB-INF/datasource_beans.xml",
"/WEB-INF/app_beans.xml"};
ctx = new FileSystemXmlApplicationContext(paths);

why?

-Henry

[Alef Arendsen]

I can only think of different XML parsers (or settings) causing the problem.

The error should be caused by an IDREF (<ref local="dataSource"/>) but both the servlet app as well as the junit test should give the same result IMO.

Are you using <ref local="dataSource"/> to reference the dataSource. If so, it (the bean) should be available in the same context file as the reference since it's an XML ID/IDREF.

Alef