“unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler” error

Question

I\'m creating a stand-alone Sava application with Spring, to handle the JDBC access. The application works fine on every test and I decided that I need a jar to be deployed

Answer 1

Looks like a bug in the Maven Assembly Plugin - MASSEMBLY-360, and as discussed in this blog entry here.

In short, the meta-data files in the Spring JARs that handle the Spring namespaces are being mangled by maven.