Error in spring application context schema

Question

I have a maven-spring project in Eclipse and I have this annoying error message in one of my spring contexts:

Referenced file contains errors (jar:fil

Answer 1

I recently had same issue with Spring 4.0.

It was caused by a collision in names from spring-beans-4.0.xsd and spring-context-4.0.xsd. Opening spring-context-4.0.xsd you can see that spring-beans-4.0.xsd is imported like follow:

These name's collisions make Eclipse complain about "...A schema cannot contain two global components with the same name..."

A noteworthy aspect is that I hadn't this problem with Eclipse Kepler SR2 but Eclipse Luna SR1, comparing both preferences about XML Validation, they were the same.

It was solved by removing spring-context-4.0.xsd from xsi:schemaLocation attribute:

http://www.springframework.org/schema/context   
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd

After this everything worked as expected.