The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'resources'

Question

I know this is a duplicate and you people are gonna chide me for it, but I didn't get a proper solution after reading all the posts.
I am trying to build a Spring Template application in Spring Source Tool Suite. I am getting the following error.

org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 16 in XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-context.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'resources'.

My root-context.xml is 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:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xmlns:cache="http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache"
    xmlns:ehcache="http://www.springmodules.org/schema/ehcache"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache/spring-cache-3.1.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd
        http://www.springmodules.org/schema/ehcache http://www.springmodules.org/schema/cache/springmodules-ehcache.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.0.xsd">

    <!-- Root Context: defines shared resources visible to all other web components -->

</beans>

Please let me know if there is a jar file missing in my application.
These are the only jar files I have in my application:
displaytag-1.0-b3.jar, spring-2.0.6.jar, spring-asm-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar, spring-beans-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar, spring-context-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar, spring-core-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar, spring-expression-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar, spring-hibernate3-2.0.8.jar, spring-web-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar & spring-webmvc-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar

Here is my servlet-context.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    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">

    <!-- DispatcherServlet Context: defines this servlet's request-processing infrastructure -->

    <!-- Enables the Spring MVC @Controller programming model -->
    <annotation-driven />

    <!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by efficiently serving up static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources directory -->
    <resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

    <!-- Resolves views selected for rendering by @Controllers to .jsp resources in the /WEB-INF/views directory -->
    <beans:bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
        <beans:property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    </beans:bean>

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.foo.controller" />



</beans:beans>

Please help...it's really annoying.

Answer 1

Your XML is fine, but according to this comment on a SpringSource blog post about Spring MVC 3

The <mvc:resources/> tag is a new feature coming in Spring Framework 3.0.4

Your application uses Spring 3.0.3, so you need to upgrade to 3.0.4 or later to be able to use the resources tag.