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

Question

Hey guys,

I've built a simple Spring WS (1.5.9) and I'm trying to deploy it to Glassfish v3. Unfortunately the deployment fails for the above reason. I've struggled to resolve the issue myself but it clearly not able to resolve the "bean" element.

Heres me spring-ws-servlet.xml (bean definitions):

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"&gt;

...bean definitions

</beans>

I've also tried it with the schemaLocation set to spring-beans-3.0.xsd with the same result.

My WAR only has one dependency and that is Spring-WS.

Answer 1

You haven't provided the standard collection of schema locations, particularly not the required schema location for the beans schema.

Here's one of mine:

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
  xmlns:gate="http://gate.ac.uk/ns/spring"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://gate.ac.uk/ns/spring http://gate.ac.uk/ns/spring.xsd
    ">
</beans>