Invalid content was found starting with element 'job'.

[sh.shankar1]

I am getting a SAXParserException that <job> tag is invalid.

Below is my configuration file:

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:batch="http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schem...-beans-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch/spring-batch-2.1.xsd">

Can anyone suggest me where I am going wrong.
I am writing my <job> tag under <beans></beans>

[Marten Deinum]

I suggest a read on xml and particularly namespaces.

Either write batch:job or switch the root namespace (now http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans) to http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch and add the beans as a separate namespace (instead of the batch one) and write beans:beans...