For me the problem was my file encoding...I used powershell to write the xml file and this was not UTF-8 ... It seems that spring requires UTF8 because as soon as I changed the encoding (using notepad++) it works again without any errors
Now i Use in my powershellscript the following line to output the xml file in UTF-8: [IO.File]::WriteAllLines($fname_dataloader_xml_config_file, $dataloader_configfile)
instead of using the redirection operator > to create my file
Note: I didn't put any xml parameters in my beans tag and it works