The prefix "context" for element "context:component-scan" is not bound

Question

I am working on spring3 mvc and came up with this error

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

Here is my dispatcher servlet

<?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: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-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">

    <mvc:annotation-driven />

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

Answer 1

Such type of error comes when You're missing the xmlns:context declaration but you have declared it. Check your classes in "com.web" package for any wrong coding.

Answer 2

Sometime the problem is in forgetting to add namespace. you should do that in the wizard of creating the config file or in the name space tab after it been created. select the proper namespaces, in this case should be context, and save.