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

Question

I am trying to configure JSF+Spring+hibernate and I'm tying to run a test but when I use this "tx:annotation-driven" on my application-context.xml file, I get this error:

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

Here is my application-context.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:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
       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-2.5.xsd
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop 
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.6.xsd
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.6.xsd
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.6.xsd
" xmlns:tool="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool">
    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
        <property name="driverClassName" value="oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver"/>
        <property name="url" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:@192.168.56.101:1521:Gpsi"/>
        <property name="username" value="omar"/>
        <property name="password" value="omar"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
       <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
       <property name="annotatedClasses">
            <list>
                <value>om.mycompany.model.Course</value>
                <value>om.mycompany.model.Student</value>
                <value>om.mycompany.model.Teacher</value>
            </list>
       </property>
       <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect</prop>
            </props>
       </property>

    </bean>
    <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
       <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
    </bean>
    <tx:annotation-driven transaction.manager="transactionManager"/>

    <context:annotation-config/>
    <context:component-scan base.package="com.mmycompany"/>
</beans>

and here is my CourseServiceImplTest. I have still not implemented the tests:

public class CourseServiceImplTest {

    private static ClassPathXmlApplicationContext context;
    private static CourseService courseService;
    public CourseServiceImplTest() {
    }

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setUpClass() throws Exception {
        context=new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("application-context.xml");
        courseService=(CourseService) context.getBean("courseService");
    }

    @AfterClass
    public static void tearDownClass() throws Exception {
        context.close();
    }

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() {
    }

    /**
     * Test of getAllCourses method, of class CourseServiceImpl.
     */
    @Test
    public void testGetAllCourses() {
        System.out.println("getAllCourses");
        CourseServiceImpl instance = new CourseServiceImpl();
        List expResult = null;
        List result = instance.getAllCourses();
        assertEquals(expResult, result);
        // TODO review the generated test code and remove the default call to fail.
        fail("The test case is a prototype.");
    }

    /**
     * Test of getCourse method, of class CourseServiceImpl.
     */
    @Test
    public void testGetCourse() {
        System.out.println("getCourse");
        Integer id = null;
        CourseServiceImpl instance = new CourseServiceImpl();
        Course expResult = null;
        Course result = instance.getCourse(id);
        assertEquals(expResult, result);
        // TODO review the generated test code and remove the default call to fail.
        fail("The test case is a prototype.");
    }

and here is the CourseServiceImpl:

@Service("courseService")
@Transactional
public class CourseServiceImpl implements CourseService{

    @Autowired
    private SessionFactory sessionFactory;
    @Override
    public List<Course> getAllCourses() {
        return sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createQuery("from Course").list();    
    }

    @Override
    public Course getCourse(Integer id) {
        return (Course) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().get(Course.class, id);
    }

    @Override
    public void save(Course course) {
       sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().saveOrUpdate(course);
    }

}

Answer 1

You have some errors in your appcontext.xml:

• Use *-2.5.xsd

  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/context 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd"
  

• Typos in tx:annotation-driven and context:component-scan (. instead of -)

  <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
  <context:component-scan base-package="com.mmycompany" />