Spring/Java error: namespace element 'annotation-config' … on JDK 1.5 and higher

Question

I have Spring/Java App that is compiled with Compiler compliance level 1.5.

I have a new Linux setup where I downloaded Apache Tomcat 8.0.8<

Answer 1

Migrate your spring version from 2.5 to >=3.2.3.

For Spring migration you need to do following changes -

1) In your pom.xml remove dependency for spring 2.5.6 and add dependency for spring new version.

2) Update 'xsi:schemaLocation' in beans tag of applicationcontet.xml file of your project.

e.g update http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd to http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd for spring 3.2.3 version.

3) Clean,build and re-deploy your project.