Invalid content was found starting with element 'tasklet'

[lpborges]

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my appliction from spring-batch 2.0 to 2.1, but I'm receiving the follow error:

11:32:21,050 ERROR JobClientExecutor:46 - Error to executing job.
org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Failed to import bean definitions from relative location [bi-context.xml]
Offending resource: class path resource [applicationContext.xml]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Failed to import bean definitions from relative location [trackerETLJob.xml]
Offending resource: class path resource [bi-context.xml]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 14 in XML document from class path resource [trackerETLJob.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with element 'tasklet'. One of '{"http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch":next, "http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch":stop, "http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch":end, "http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch":fail, "http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch":listeners}' is expected.
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.FailFastProblemReporter.error(FailFastProblemReporter.java:68)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderContext.java:85)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderContext.java:76)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:201)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseDefaultElement(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:147)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:132)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:92)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:507)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:398)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:342)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:310)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:149)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:212)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:113)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:80)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:123)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:422)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:352)
	at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139)
	at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:93)
	at br.com.pst.tracker.bi.client.JobClientExecutor.main(JobClientExecutor.java:29)

Here my tasklet declaration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch/spring-batch-2.1.xsd">
	
	<job id="vehiclesETL" job-repository="jobRepository">
 		
		<step id="initMemDatabase">
			<next on="*" to="monitStepsETL"/>
			<next on="FAILED" to="failMemDatabase"/>
			<tasklet ref="initMemDBTasklet"/>
		</step>
		 
		<step id="monitStepsETL">
			<next on="*" to="stopMemDatabase"/>
			<next on="FAILED" to="failMemDatabase"/>
			<tasklet transaction-manager="biTransactionManager">
				<chunk reader="vehiclesReader" processor="vehicleMonitsProcessor" writer="vehicleMonitStepsWriter" commit-interval="1"/>
			</tasklet>
		</step>

		<step id="stopMemDatabase">
			<tasklet ref="stopMemDBTasklet"/>
		</step>

		<step id="failMemDatabase">
			<fail on="*"/>
			<tasklet ref="stopMemDBTasklet"/>
		</step>
</job>

	<beans:bean id="initMemDBTasklet" class="br.com.pst.tracker.bi.tasklets.InitMemDBTasklet"/>
	
	<beans:bean id="stopMemDBTasklet" class="br.com.pst.tracker.bi.tasklets.StopMemDBTasklet"/>

	<beans:bean id="vehiclesReader" scope="step" class="br.com.pst.tracker.bi.readers.VehicleReader"/>

	<beans:bean id="vehicleMonitsProcessor" class="org.springframework.batch.item.support.CompositeItemProcessor">
		<beans:property name="delegates">
			<beans:list>
				<beans:ref bean="vehicleLoadMonitsProcessor"/>
				<beans:ref bean="vehicleMonitStepsProcessor"/>
			</beans:list>
		</beans:property>
	</beans:bean>
	
	<beans:bean id="vehicleLoadMonitsProcessor" scope="step" class="br.com.pst.tracker.bi.processors.VehicleLoadMonitsProcessor">
		<beans:property name="jobDate" value="#{jobParameters[scheduler.jobDate]}"/>
  	</beans:bean>
  	
  	<beans:bean id="vehicleMonitStepsProcessor" scope="step" class="br.com.pst.tracker.bi.processors.VehicleMonitStepsProcessor">
  		<beans:property name="jobDate" value="#{jobParameters[scheduler.jobDate]}"/>
  	</beans:bean>
  	
  	<beans:bean id="vehicleMonitStepsWriter" class="br.com.pst.tracker.bi.writers.VehicleMonitStepsWriter"/>

</beans:beans>

Thx for any help,
Leandro Borges

[Dave Syer]

The XML isn't strictly valid. It's just telling you to put your <tasklet/> declaration before your <next/>.