mvc:annotation-driven is not bound

Question

I get this error when I run a certain Spring Web 3 project in NetBeans:

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 11; columnNumber: 30; The prefix \"

Answer 1

This is an IDE Error, Which can be resolved by adding the following to your Spring Dispatcher Servlet

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

And also add the following snippet if it is not included in your xml file

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

Answer 2

You are probably missing some significant portion of the namespace declaration, as discussed here: http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?100397-The-prefix-mvc-for-element-mvc-annotation-driven-is-notbound

It does not effect runtime, but the development environment will suffer with similar problems as you describe.

I guess it should go this way: http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd

Answer 3

Add: xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"

Otherwise xml will not understand the p annotation.

Answer 4

Changing below code worked for me

<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.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">

to below code (imp : check xmlns:context and xmlns:xsi position)

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
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">

Answer 5

This is an IDE Error, Which can be resolved by following to

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

Answer 6

try this it worked for me:

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
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
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.mkyong.common.controller" />
<mvc:annotation-driven />