Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'.

I was getting following exceptions :

servers/AdminServer/tmp/_WL_user/core-app/m7r7rm/war/WEB-INF/lib/custom.core-Proj-1.9.0.jar!/conf/spring/dataaccess/openjpa/

njpa.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaratio

an be found for element 'util:list'.

        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:404)

        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:342)

        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:310)

        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143)

        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178)

        Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'util:list'.

        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:236)

        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:172)

        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:382)

        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:316)

        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator$XSIErrorReporter.reportError(XMLSchemaValidator.java:429)

        Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace

>

weblogic.application.ModuleException:

        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:975)

        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:361)

        at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:204)

        at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:26)

        at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:60)

        Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'util:list'.

        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:236)

        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:172)

        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:382)

        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:316)

        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator$XSIErrorReporter.reportError(XMLSchemaValidator.java:429)

        Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/renamed/openjpa/util/ImplHelper

        at org.apache.renamed.openjpa.conf.OpenJPAConfigurationImpl.preClose(OpenJPAConfigurationImpl.java:1439)

        at org.apache.renamed.openjpa.jdbc.conf.JDBCConfigurationImpl.preClose(JDBCConfigurationImpl.java:852)

        at org.apache.renamed.openjpa.lib.conf.ConfigurationImpl.close(ConfigurationImpl.java:347)

        at org.apache.renamed.openjpa.kernel.AbstractBrokerFactory.close(AbstractBrokerFactory.java:399)

        at org.apache.renamed.openjpa.kernel.DelegatingBrokerFactory.close(DelegatingBrokerFactory.java:183)

For this issue I checked for Spring version it was 2.0 in my application where in the spring configuration file it was mentioned as 3.0

I just changed the following from


<?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:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
                           http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd">

to 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:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"

       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd

                           http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.0.xsd">

It fixed the issue.