Question

My spring-context file is shown below.

<beans xmlns='http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans'     xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'     xmlns:aop='http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop'     xmlns:jee='http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee'     xmlns:jms='http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms'     xmlns:lang='http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang'     xmlns:tx='http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx'     xmlns:util='http://www.springframework.org/schema/util'     xsi:schemaLocation='http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd         http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd         http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd         http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms/spring-jms.xsd         http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang.xsd         http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd         http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd'>      <bean id='cfaBeanFactory' class='org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext'>         <constructor-arg value='classpath:cfa-spring-core.xml' />     </bean> </beans> 

When I try to run my application, I get the following error:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.access.BootstrapException: Unable to initialize group definition. Group resource name [classpath*:cfa-spring-context.xml], factory key [cfaBeanFactory]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 16 in XML document from URL [file:/C:/.../cfa-spring-context.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element 'beans', must match DOCTYPE root 'null'.     at org.springframework.beans.factory.access.SingletonBeanFactoryLocator.useBeanFactory(SingletonBeanFactoryLocator.java:389)     ... 56 more Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 16 in XML document from URL [file:/C:/.../cfa-spring-context.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element 'beans', must match DOCTYPE root 'null'.     at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:169)     ... 59 more Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element 'beans', must match DOCTYPE root 'null'.     at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)     at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(Unknown Source) 

Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Answer 1

Turns out this is because I’m using Hibernate 3 with Spring 1.x which means the DTDs are wrong. Updated the Spring JAR file in the project and that fixed the problem.