The Matching Wildcard Is Strict, But No Declaration Can Be Found for Element 'Context:Component-Scan

The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'context:component-scan

You have not specified the schema location of the context namespace, that is the reason for this specific error:

<beans .....
  xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">

The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'context:annotation-config'

You have a mistake in specifying the location for the XSD for xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" namespace:

Replace

http://www.springframework.org/schema/spring-context-3.2.xsd

with

http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd

Altogether:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation=
       "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context">
  <context:annotation-config />
  <context:component-scan base-package="com"/>
  <bean id="bean1" class="com.pojos.BookInfo">
  </bean>
</beans>

The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'context:component-scan' error in dispatcher servlet

According to this post "You have not specified the schema location of the context namespace, that is the reason for this specific error".

However, it seems that you have it, so lets see what else can it be.

One option can be that you can specify the version of spring-beans because you are using 3.2 in your applicationContext, so might be beneficial to use the same one in DefaultServlet-servlet.xml.

Another thing which I feel worried is path http://www.springframework.org/schema/p, as I understand for this you don't need to specify the schemaLocation. It seems to be right, but I don't see that much of advantage here plus some of the XML namespaces are not used. So, I modified it and got this, try if it helps, hope it does.

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
   xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd">

<tx:annotation-driven/>

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

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
    <property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
    <property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/projectshaun" />
    <property name="username" value="root" />
    <property name="password" value="" />
</bean>

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
    <property name="annotatedClasses">
        <list>
            <value>com.projectShaun.model.Account</value>
        </list>
    </property>
    <property name="hibernateProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
</bean>

<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
    <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>

The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'context:component-scan'

For starters you should fix your dependencies. You are mixing Spring 3.2.3 and 2.0.6 jars (that is problems waiting to happen).

Next to that your declaration is wrong http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/ must be http://www.springframework.org/schema/context.

cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'tx:annotation-driven'

The schema location for tx is never provided in the <beans> tag. Notice the change in the last line of the provided configuration. Also the config mixes Spring 2.0 with 2.5, I'm not sure if this is desired, but I wanted to make you aware this.

<beans xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd">

The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for multiple elements in servlet.xml

In your xsi:schemaLocation you have trailing / for all the schema except for beans. remove the trailing / and it will solve the issue.

For Example the schema for context is

http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/ http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd

it should be

http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd

So your XML should be as follows.

<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:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
       xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang"
       xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
       xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">
    <context:annotation-config />
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.employee.controller" />
    <bean id="jspViewResolver"
          class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="viewClass"
                  value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView">
        </property>
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/view/"></property>
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"></property>
    </bean>
    <bean id="messageSource"
          class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
        <property name="basename" value="classpath:messages"></property>
        <property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8"></property>
    </bean>
    <bean id="propertyConfigurer"
          class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
          p:location="/WEB-INF/jdbc.properties">
    </bean>
    <bean id="dataSource"
          class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close"
          p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}"
          p:url="${jdbc.databaseurl}" p:username="${jdbc.username}"
          p:password="${jdbc.password}">
    </bean>
    <bean id="sessionFactory"
          class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"></property>
        <property name="configLocation">
            <value>classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
        </property>
        <property name="configurationClass">
            <value>org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration</value>
        </property>
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${jdbc.dialect}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>
    <bean id="employeeDAO" class="com.employee.dao.EmployeeDAOImpl"></bean>
    <bean id="employeeService" class="com.employee.service.EmployeeServiceImpl"></bean>
    <tx:annotation-driven />
    <bean id="transactionManager"
          class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"></property>
    </bean>
</beans>

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