"unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler" error

Question

I'm creating a stand-alone Sava application with Spring, to handle the JDBC access. The application works fine on every test and I decided that I need a jar to be deployed our clients.

They might not have spring in their classpath, so I used maven-assembly-plugin to handle the jar creation with dependencies.

However when I try to run the application:

java -jar target/myproject-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar

Which throws the following error:

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace [http://www.springframework.org/schema/p]
Offending resource: class path resource [applicationContext.xml]

at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.FailFastProblemReporter.error(FailFastProblemReporter.java:68)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderContext.java:85)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderContext.java:80)
...and so on to the database access class of this project.

The applicationContext.xml file is in projectbase/src/main/resources. And its placed at target/packagename base.

The applicationContext.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:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
   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
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">


    <bean id="dataSourceDesenv" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"... />

    <bean id="simpleJdbcDaoSupport" class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.simple.SimpleJdbcDaoSupport"
      p:dataSource-ref="dataSourceDesenv" />

    <bean id="simpleJdbcTemplate" class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.simple.SimpleJdbcTemplate">
        <constructor-arg ref="dataSourceDesenv" />
    </bean>

</beans>

Answer 1

I ran into this problem today with the maven-assembly-plugin. A search brought me to this question, and a look a the bug report suggested that perhaps I was using the wrong plugin. So I switched to the maven-shade-plugin. It works perfectly, as far as I can tell. I have an executable jar that incorporates a number of Spring modules as well as Apache MQ. Here's the relevant bit from my pom.xml:

<build>
<finalName>sample-broker</finalName>
<plugins>
  ...
  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.0</version>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <phase>package</phase>
        <goals>
          <goal>shade</goal>
        </goals>
        <configuration>
          <transformers>
            <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
              <resource>META-INF/spring.handlers</resource>
            </transformer>
            <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
              <resource>META-INF/spring.schemas</resource>
            </transformer>
            <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
              <mainClass>org.XYZ</mainClass>
            </transformer>
          </transformers>
        </configuration>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>
</plugins>
</build>