“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

In addition to the solution posted by @GrampaJohn, I also had to make sure that I was packaging the required libraries into the generated JAR file instead of extracting them into the generated JAR.

In Eclipse Mars, after making changes to the pom.xml (added maven-shade plugin as suggested by @GrampaJohn), follow the steps:

File -> Export -> Select Java folder -> Runnable JAR File -> enter the Launch configuration (main file), export destination, and in Library Handling, select "Package required Libraries into generated JAR -> Click finish

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