For me the problem was that spring was not able to download http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd or http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
However I was able to access those from my browser as it was using my machines proxy. So I just copied the content of the two xsds to files named spring-beans.xsd and spring-context.xsd and replaced the http url with the file names and it worked for me.