Question

I am getting below error when running my application on apache tomcat.

HTTP Status 500 - Servlet.init() for servlet spring threw exception

root cause

org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: 
Line 11 in XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml] is invalid;
 nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'.

My spring-context.xml is this

            <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
     xmlns:cotext="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
     xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
     xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
                         http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
                         http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
                         http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
                         http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc">

     <mvc:annotation-driven/>
     <cotext:component-scan base-package="springmvc"/>   

I’ve tried https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-3372 with no luck.

please help.

Answer 1

Few things looks off to me:

1) You have to remove ” http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee” in xmlns attribute. I think this is the main problem here. “xmlns” attribute can’t take multiple URIs according to spec:
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_namespaces.asp

2) Some XML libraries don’t like the spaces in the beginning of XML file in front of (in particular Eclipse will complain)

3) xsi:schemaLocation value is missing location URI for mvc. It should probably look like this:

 xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
               http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
               http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
               http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
               http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
               http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">

You can as well remove extra “beans” declaration as previous answer suggests, unless you really want to use “beans” namespace prefix for some reason.