cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'mvc:annotation-driven' error

Question

I have added the spring-security-config-3.1.0.RC3.jar in my lib folder and i still get this error. What can be possible reason ??

Here is my dispatcher-servlet.xml

Answer 1

I had an almost similar error as you. My applicationContext.xml file was like this :

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/beans/spring-beans.xsd">//should be context instead of beans

When I had tried to write

<context:property-placeholder location="file:src/application.properties"/>

then I got error.I fixed the error by copying the code which is below :

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">

Answer 2

You have this:

xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"

but you're not mentioning it here:

xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans     
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

To fix that, you should have

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

there as well, like

xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans     
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

Note: it is actually common that schema references don't mention Spring version to allow for easier upgrading, so you should use references like http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd instead of the ones having -3.0 in the name.