Error in spring application context schema

Question

I have a maven-spring project in Eclipse and I have this annoying error message in one of my spring contexts:

Referenced file contains errors (jar:fil

Answer 1

I recently had same issue with Spring 4.0.

It was caused by a collision in names from spring-beans-4.0.xsd and spring-context-4.0.xsd. Opening spring-context-4.0.xsd you can see that spring-beans-4.0.xsd is imported like follow:

<xsd:import namespace="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"  
schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd"/>

These name's collisions make Eclipse complain about "...A schema cannot contain two global components with the same name..."

A noteworthy aspect is that I hadn't this problem with Eclipse Kepler SR2 but Eclipse Luna SR1, comparing both preferences about XML Validation, they were the same.

It was solved by removing spring-context-4.0.xsd from xsi:schemaLocation attribute:

http://www.springframework.org/schema/context   
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd

After this everything worked as expected.

Answer 2

What @forhas and @HRgiger did also worked for me. I am using spring-data-mongodb instead of jpa.

However, for mongodb bindings, you should not remove the version of mongodb reference xsd, just keep it with version: http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/mongo/spring-mongo-1.0.xsd. context and beans versions should be removed.

Answer 3

I also faced this problem and fixed it by removing version part from the XSD name.

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

Versions less XSD's are mapped to the current version of the framework used in the application.

Answer 4

Steps to resolve this issue 1.Right click on your project 2.Click on validate option

Result :TODO issue resolved

Answer 5

I have recently had same issue with JPA-1.3

Nothing worked until I used explicit tools.xsd link

xsi:schemaLocation=" ...
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool/spring-tool-3.2.xsd
    ... ">

like this:

<?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:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" 
    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
    xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-3.2.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa-1.3.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool/spring-tool-3.2.xsd
        ">

Answer 6

What I did with spring-data-jpa-1.3 was adding a version to xsd and lowered it to 1.2. Then the error message disappears. Like this

<beans
        xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
        ...
        xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa"
        xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    ...
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa-1.2.xsd">

Seems like it was fixed for for 1.2 but then appears again in 1.3.