Spring context fails without network connection

[ejain]

Just discovered that I'm unable to start an RCP app when no network connection is present:

!ENTRY org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader 2 30000 2011-01-18 20:12:14.316
!MESSAGE Ignored XML validation warning
!STACK 0
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd', because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>.
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:195)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.warning(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:96)
	...

When a network connection is present, the application works fine, but Spring fetches the following two schemas repeatedly (once for each Spring-enabled bundle) on startup:

• http://www.springframework.org/schem...-beans-3.0.xsd
• http://www.springframework.org/schem...g-tool-3.0.xsd

Here's how all spring-context.xml files start:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans 
    xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" 
    xmlns:osgi="http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi"
    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    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/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi/spring-osgi-2.0-m1.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd"
    osgi:default-timeout="10000"
>

I'm using the org.springframework.beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar bundle.

Anyone else encountered this issue?

[ejain]

For the record: The spring-beans bundle (which contains the two schemas) needs to be started (before the spring extender bundle is started). See https://jira.springsource.org/browse/OSGI-810.