Spring 2.0 XSD-style configuration and Tomcat 5.5

[magne]

I'm trying to use the new style configuration, but only get exceptions when deploying on tomcat 5.5.

My applicationContext.xml:

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

</beans>

When deploying this on a tomcat 5.5.17 running on JDK1.5.0_08 I get:

     0 INFO  [pringframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Root WebApplicationContext: initialization started
   188 INFO  [eans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader] Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [applicationContext.xml]
   219 ERROR [pringframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 17 in XML document from class path resource [applicationContext.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "beans", must match DOCTYPE root "null".
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "beans", must match DOCTYPE root "null".
	at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:267)
	at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:201)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:258)

I guess it has something to do with the classloader not finding the .xds inside the spring-beans.jar, but have no clue as to how to fix this.

Please help!!

Magne

[Marten Deinum]

We use the following (notice the 2.0 in the header!)

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
            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-2.0.xsd">

[magne]

I use version 2.0-m2 of spring (latest version with semi-decent maven2 pom's on ibiblio), and in this version the schema hasn't changed to '-2.0.xsd' yet. But I've also tried with the '-2.0' with the same result.

Magne

[Marten Deinum]

I assume that people always use the latest (I know I know don't assume ). However it could be a parser problem, try upgrading the parser. Also check that tomcat and your jdk use the same parser (the jdk comes equiped with an older one if I'm not mistaken).

[mattj65816]

Make sure that you do not have any older-version Spring jars anywhere on your classpath. I ran into this issue a couple weeks back and it drove me nuts. As it turned out, Maven was putting a copy of spring-1.2.6.jar (alongside various spring-*-2.0-rc4.jars) in my lib directory due to a transitive dependency issue.

May or may not be your problem, but it is work a check.