Get rid of xmlns namespace declaration? - appContext.xml

[Fabian]

Hi,

I'm just wondering if is possible to get rid of the xmlns namespaces located at the head of the application context, this one:

<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-2.5.xsd">

I'm asking 'cause I'm facing a situation where the client wants to run the app, in a server with restricted access to internet, so, when the app start, the context
can't be instantiate 'cause the app can't find the declaration of element 'beans' and throw an exception:

"Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'".

So, it's possible to get rid of those xml namespace? (I mean, maybe I can put them into the WEB-INF folder or something like that...)

How can I skip those xml namespaces?

[Fabian]

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[jpeterson]

Something else is weird with your configuration. I run spring apps disconnected from the network all the time. All of my spring configs have the schema namespaces defined. I'm not doing anything special to support it either.

[Fabian]

ok, this one is my appContext:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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-2.5.xsd"> 
     
<!-- DataSource configurations BEANS -->
    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
          <property name="jndiName" value="${jndi.potala.database}"/>   
          <property name="resourceRef" value="true" />
    </bean>
    
    <bean id="propertyConfigurer" 
          class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="locations">
            <list>
                <value>classpath:/WEB-INF/conf/debibacOperations.properties</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>
    
    <bean id="transactionManager" 
          class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
    </bean>

    
    
<!-- Service configuration BEAN -->
 <!-- more bean configuration here -->  
    
</beans>

Why the application is throwing this exception just when the app has no access to internet?

"Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'".

[Fabian]

Ok, I just found a work around, I'm using this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
<!--  As you can see, I'm skipping this xml namespaces
<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-2.5.xsd"> 
-->  
<beans>      
  <!-- DataSource configurations BEANS here-->        
</beans>

XD easy ain't?!