In short, I’m trying to learn a bit of Spring. Problem is, when I

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In short, I’m trying to learn a bit of Spring. Problem is, when I

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In short, I’m trying to learn a bit of Spring. Problem is, when I deploy my application, Spring loads XML files and encounters this exception:

org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException:
Line 8 in XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml] is invalid;
nested exception is oracle.xml.parser.schema.XSDException:
Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:404)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:342)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:310)
....

I found that this is caused by W3 who return a 503 for recurring requests to download their DTD files (see here for details). Is there any way to get Spring to use a cached version? Also, how would I go about doing that? My environment includes Glassfish v3, Spring v2.5.6, Spring Web Flow v2.0.8 and NetBeans 6.8

Thing is, the DTD is not mentioned in the file. Here’s what my spring-servlet.xml looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xmlns:webflow="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config/spring-webflow-config.xsd">
....
</beans>

Cheers