Question

I’m trying to set up Spring 3.0.6 libraries as a module in JBoss 7.

I have all of the jars in modules/org/springframework/main along with the following module.xml

<module xmlns:"urn:jboss:module:1.0" name="org.springframework">
    <resources>
          <resource-root path="org.springframework.beans-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar"/>
          ...
    </resources>

    <dependencies>
       <module name="javax.api"/>
       <module name="javax.servlet.api"/>
       <module name="org.apache.commons.logging"/>
    </dependencies>
</module>

I added org.springframework to the Dependencies line in my MANIFEST.MF

When I deploy the app the following exception is thrown while parsing my spring-servlet.xml file (sorry, this is from a system that is not networked)

SAXParseException: ... Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'

My first thought was that the module is not being used but if I remove org.springframework from my Dependencies line it fails to find org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener

Everything works fine if I put the jars in WEB-INF/lib instead of using the module.

spring-servlet.xml contains the following schema reference

http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd

so I put spring-beans-3.0.xsd in the same directory as spring-servlet.xml and modified the xml to

http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans spring-beans-3.0.xsd

but still no luck.

Anybody have an idea of why the class files are found but the xsd files are not?

Answer 1

Just in case the link that was given in the comments goes away, the problem is that

Problem:

The namespace configuration files are in META-INF, but that directory
is not visible (nor is it configurable via
jboss-deployment-structure.xml)

Solution:

   <jboss-deployment-structure xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-structure:1.0">
        <deployment>
            <dependencies>
                <module name="org.apache.commons.logging"/>
                <module name="org.springframework" >
                    <imports>
                        <include path="META-INF**"/>
                        <include path="org**"/>
                    </imports>
                </module>
            </dependencies>
    </jboss-deployment-structure>