Question

I have an xml in 3.0 like so:

        <bean id="dataSource" destroy-method="close" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
            <property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
            <property name="url" value="${jdbc.internal.url}" />
            <property name="username" value="${jdbc.internal.username}" />        
            <property name="password" value="${jdbc.internal.password}"/>
        </bean>

I want to convert this to 3.1 while making use of the beans:profile However, when I try to change it to this:

        <beans profile="dev">
          <bean id="dataSource" destroy-method="close" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
              <property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
              <property name="url" value="${jdbc.internal.url}" />
              <property name="username" value="${jdbc.internal.username}" />        
              <property name="password" value="${jdbc.internal.password}"/>
        </bean>
        </beans>

I get errors like:

Invalid content was found starting with element 'bean'. One of '{"http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans":beans}'

Question

How can I make use of the beans:profile so that this particular bean definition only gets called when the active profile is dev

Update
My beans definition is:

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-3.1.xsd">

Answer 1

You must put all nested <beans> declarations at the very end of the configuration file. This is how XML schema is defined and you have to obey this.

See also

• Spring Framework 3.1 M1 released:

  spring-beans-3.1.xsd has been updated to allow this nesting, but constrained to allow such elements only as the last ones in the file.