Spring MVC Servlet Error

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I am getting the following error when trying to access my pages using Spring MVC, addMinutes.jsp & hello.jsp. I can only access the root localhost, but if I navigate to a page, I get this error:

org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 11 in XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/config/servlet-config.xml] is invalid;
nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'mvc:annotation-driven'.

I've searched online and I think my xml="" links are probably wrong, but I got this straight from the pluralsight.com tutorial. I'm new to JAVA MVC so this is foreign to me. Any help would be appreciated.

Here is my servlet-config.xml

<?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:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
        xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.0.xsd">

        <mvc:annotation-driven/>
        <context:component-scan base-package="com.pluralsight.controller"></context:component-scan>

        <!--
        <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"></bean>
            <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
            <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>-->

            <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InteralResourceViewResolver" p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/" p:suffix=".jsp"/>
    </beans>

Here is my web.xml

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>fitTrackerServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>/WEB-INF/config/servlet-config.xml</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>fitTrackerServlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>


  <display-name>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name>
</web-app>

Learn about XML and what it means and what is required to declare a namespace. — Sotirios Delimanolis
– Sotirios Delimanolis, Commented Jan 27, 2014 at 19:53

Reimeus · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-27 20:14:34Z

1

Add the mvc and context schema locations to the beans section in the application context file

 <?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:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
      xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"        
      xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
                          http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd                       http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
                          http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop
                          http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
                          http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
                          http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
                          http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">

edited Jan 27, 2014 at 20:14

answered Jan 27, 2014 at 19:40

Reimeus

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4 Comments

C.Coggins Over a year ago

With these changes, I get three errors: no declaration found for context:component-scan, p:prefix not bound to bean, and Multiple annotations found at this line: - schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'springframework.org/schema mvc/spring-mvc-2.0.xsd', because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>. - cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'mvc:annotation-driven'.

Reimeus Over a year ago

also missing is the context namespace schema location - see update

Bart Over a year ago

@C.Coggins You really should try to understand the problem at hand and not resort to some copy/paste frenzy. For every namespace declaration you'll need to specify a location. You need to see if everything checks out.

C.Coggins Over a year ago

@Bart, yes I could spend the next month trying to understand these xml errors, or I can simply put in the correct xml address per the tutorial, learn what the tutorial teaches, then expand onto bigger topics. If you're learning advanced math, you have to learn to count to 10 before you start learning about sin, tangents, etc...

spal · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-27 19:59:04Z

How about this, basically its missing some namespaces xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"

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

    <mvc:annotation-driven />
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.pluralsight.controller"></context:component-scan>


    <bean
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InteralResourceViewResolver"
        p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/" p:suffix=".jsp" />
</beans>

Jukka · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-27 20:56:21Z

Here's a working header template for your spring configuration:

<?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:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
...
</beans>

Also make sure you are running a recent version of Spring >= 3 (otherwise the mvc and p-namespaces will not work) and that you have all the necessary Spring JARs in your classpath.

If you need to edit Spring configuration files often, installing Spring Tool Suite (STS) is a good help, since it has templates and the hugely useful 'namespaces' tab for configuring the necessary XML namespaces in Spring config files.

Also spending a few hours learning XML wouldn't hurt.

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