I have the spring jars of spring-3.2.0.RC1.jar and trying to implement Apache ActiveMQ helloWorld program from tutorial given here. Th
This error of Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans' but for a whole different reason
It turs out my internet connection was not very reliable, so i decided to check first for this url
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd
Once I saw that the xsd was open succesfully I clean the Eclipse(IDE) project and the error was gone
If you try this steps and still get the error then check the Spring version so that it matches as mentioned by another answer
Replace [MAYOR.MINOR] on the last line with whatever major.minor Spring version that you are using
For Spring 4.0 http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd
For Sprint 3.1 http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans spring-beans-3.1.xsd
All the contexts are available here http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/