Spring frame work config issue "prefix context for for element context:annotation-config is not bound"

Question

I am having a weird issue that I can't seem to track down. I have this working with other servers without a problem, but I can't seem to get this one to work. The closest post that I see to my problem was this post The prefix "context" for element "context:component-scan" is not bound

All others really were just because the prefix was not in the xml file. I am hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction here.

Spring XML 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:dwr="http://www.directwebremoting.org/schema/spring-dwr"
  xmlns:mongo="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/mongo"
  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/data/mongo
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/mongo/spring-mongo-1.0.xsd
    http://www.directwebremoting.org/schema/spring-dwr
    http://www.directwebremoting.org/schema/spring-dwr-3.0.xsd">

    <context:annotation-config/>

So I have that, but getting this error:

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The prefix "context" for element "context:annotation-config" is not bound.

Appreciate any help. Let me know what else I can provide.

Thanks

Answer 1

I was experiencing the same problem until I realized beans tag attribute xmlns:context was missing. Just added the below lines

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

Then rebuilt the project.

It worked well then on.

Answer 2

The following works for me:

test.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:dwr="http://www.directwebremoting.org/schema/spring-dwr"
  xmlns:mongo="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/mongo"
  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/data/mongo
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/mongo/spring-mongo-1.0.xsd
    http://www.directwebremoting.org/schema/spring-dwr
    http://www.directwebremoting.org/schema/spring-dwr-3.0.xsd">

    <context:annotation-config/>

</beans>

When I use the following class to run it:

Test.java

import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("test.xml");
        System.out.println("Finished!");
    }

}

Can you please see if this runs for you? You will need the following libraries in the classpath: commons-logging, spring-asm, spring-beans, spring-context, spring-core, and spring-expression.

Please let me know if it worked. If it didn't, please post the full stack-trace. Finally, I used Spring 3.1.1 for the above.