The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'tx:annotation-driven'

Question

I am trying to configure JSF+Spring+hibernate and I\'m tying to run a test but when I use this \"tx:annotation-driven\" on my application-context.xml file, I get this error:

Answer 1

FWIW I had this same issue. Turned out my xsi:schemaLocation entries were incorrect, so I went to the official docs and pasted theirs into mine:

http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/transaction.html section 16.5.6

I had to add a couple more but that was ok. Next up is to find out why this fixed the problem...

Answer 2

I'm learning from udemy. I followed every step that my instructor show me to do. In spring mvc crud section while setting up the devlopment environment i had the same error for:

<mvc:annotation-driven/> and <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="myTransactionManager" />

then i just replaced

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd 

with

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.2.xsd

and

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd

with

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.2.xsd

actually i visited these two sites http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/ and http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/ and just added the latest version of spring-mvc and spring-tx i.e, spring-mvc-4.2.xsd and spring-tx-4.2.xsd

So, i suggest to try this. Hope this helps. Thank you.

Answer 3

For me the thing that worked was the order in which the namespaces were defined in the xsi:schemaLocation tag : [ since the version was all good and also it was transaction-manager already ]

The error was with :

 http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
 http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
 http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
 http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd"

AND RESOLVED WITH :

http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd"

Answer 4

One extra forward slash (/) in front of tx and the *.xml file troubled me for 8 hours!!

My mistake:

http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/ http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.3.xsd

Correction:

http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.3.xsd

Indeed one character less/more manages to keep programmers busy for hours!

Answer 5

You have some errors in your appcontext.xml:

• Use *-2.5.xsd

  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd"
  

• Typos in tx:annotation-driven and context:component-scan (. instead of -)

  <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
  <context:component-scan base-package="com.mmycompany" />
  

Answer 6

Make sure that Spring version and xsd version both are same.In my case I am using Spring 4.1.1 so my all xsd should be version *-4.1.xsd