How can I run my Spring apps offline?

Question

I have a Spring application (not a web app) that should be possible to run offline. However, when I try to do that, it crashes with this error message:

- Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [applicationContext.xml]
21220 [main] WARN  org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader 
 - Ignored XML validation warning
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool/spring-tool-3.0.xsd', because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.warning(Unknown Source)
...

This is caused by Spring not being able to find the schemas, as they are online and Spring is offline. How can I run my Spring apps offline?

Answer 1

Duplicate. See:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1729307/spring-schemalocation-fails-when-there-is-no-internet-connection
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2293415/how-to-avoid-downloading-schema-file-from-internet-during-spring-initialization

etc.