Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace [http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa]

Question

Any ideas, what could cause this error?

org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace [http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa] Offending resource: ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-context.xml]

Here is my 'servle-context.xml' (there are some problems with the indents, but the file is too huge...):

<?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:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa"
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/tx 
                    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
                    http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa 
                    http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa.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.epam.mvc3.model" />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.epam.mvc3.controller" />

<!-- JPA -->
<beans:bean
    class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
    <beans:property name="location">
        <beans:value>resources/database.properties</beans:value>
    </beans:property>
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="myDataSource"
    class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
    <beans:property name="driverClassName">
        <beans:value>${jdbc.driverClassName}</beans:value>
    </beans:property>
    <beans:property name="url">
        <beans:value>${jdbc.url}</beans:value>
    </beans:property>
    <beans:property name="username">
        <beans:value>${jdbc.username}</beans:value>
    </beans:property>
    <beans:property name="password">
        <beans:value>${jdbc.password}</beans:value>
    </beans:property>
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="myEmf"
    class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
    <beans:property name="dataSource" ref="myDataSource" />

    <beans:property name="persistenceUnitName" value="application" />
    <beans:property name="persistenceXmlLocation"
        value="classpath*:META-INF/persistence.xml" />
    <beans:property name="jpaVendorAdapter" ref="hibernateVendor" />

    <beans:property name="loadTimeWeaver">
        <beans:bean
            class="org.springframework.instrument.classloading.InstrumentationLoadTimeWeaver"></beans:bean>
    </beans:property>
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="hibernateVendor"
    class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="transactionManager"
    class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
    <beans:property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="myEmf"></beans:property>
</beans:bean>

<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />

<!-- Spring Data configuration -->
<jpa:repositories base-package="com.epam.mvc3.repository"/>

</beans:beans>

As you can see, i specified the path to the jpa-schema. And I don't know what is the problem

Answer 1

Try to replace

http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa.xsd

by

http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa-1.0.xsd

But if you still use Version 1.0-M1 then try to update first. DATAJPA-21

Answer 2

Make sure you have spring-data-jpa in your dependencies

If you use maven:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
    <version>1.7.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>