Spring cannot find bean xml configuration file when it does exist

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I am trying to make my first bean in Spring but got a problem with loading a context  I have a configuration XML file of the bean in src main resources   I receive the following IOException      Exception in thread  main   org springframework beans factory BeanDefinitionStoreException  IOException parsing XML document from class path resource  src main resources beans xml   nested exception is       java io FileNotFoundException  class path resource  src main resources beans xml  cannot        be opened because it does not exist   but I don t get it  since I do the following code test   File f   new File  src main resources beans xml    System out println  Exist test      f exists       which gives me true  resources is in the classpath  What s wrong

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I have stuck in this issue for a while and I have came to the following solution

Create an ApplicationContextAware class (which is a class that implements the ApplicationContextAware)
In ApplicationContextAware we have to implement the one method only

public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext context) throws BeansException
Tell the spring context about this new bean (I call it SpringContext)
```
bean id="springContext" class="packe.of.SpringContext" />
```

Here is the code snippet

import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware;

public class SpringContext implements ApplicationContextAware {
  private static ApplicationContext context;

  @Override
  public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext context) throws BeansException {
    this.context = context;
  }
  public static ApplicationContext getApplicationContext() {
    return context;
  }
}

Then you can call any method of application context outside the spring context for example


SomeServiceClassOrComponent utilityService SpringContext.getApplicationContext().getBean(SomeServiceClassOrComponent .class);

I hope this will solve the problem for many users

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I am on IntelliJ and faced the same issue  Below is how i resolved it  1  Added the resource import as following in Spring application class along with other imports   ImportResource  quot applicationContext xml quot   2  Saw IDE showing   Cannot resolve file  applicationContext xml  and also suggesting paths where its expecting the file  It was not the resources where the file applicationContext xml was originally kept  3  Copied the file at the expected location and the Exception got resolved  Screen shot below for easy ref   But if you would like to keep it at resources then follow this great answer link below and add the resources path so that it gets searched  With this setting exception resolves without  ImportResource described in above steps  https   stackoverflow com a 24843914 5916535

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use it  ApplicationContext context   new FileSystemXmlApplicationContext  Beans xml

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Gradle   v4 10 3  IDE   IntelliJ  I was facing this issue when using gradle to run my build and test  Copying the applicationContext xml all over the place did not help  Even specifying the complete path as below did not help    context   new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  C        applicationContext xml      The solution  for gradle at least  lies in the way gradle processes resources  For my gradle project I had laid out the workspace as defined at https   docs gradle org current userguide java plugin html sec java project layout  When running a test using default gradle set of tasks includes a  processTestResources  step  which looks for test resources at C        src test resources  Gradle helpfully provides the complete path    Your  properties file and applicationContext xml need to be in this directory  If the resources directory is not present  as it was in my case   you need to create it copy the file s  there  After this  simply specifying the file name worked just fine    context   new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  applicationContext xml

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Thanks  but that was not the solution  I found it out why it wasn t working for me   Since I d done a declaration    ApplicationContext context   new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  beans xml      I thought I would refer to root directory of the project when beans xml file was there  Then I put the configuration file to src main resources and changed initialization to    ApplicationContext context   new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  src main resources beans xml      it still was an IO Exception   Then the file was left in src main resources  but I changed declaration to   ApplicationContext context   new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  beans xml      and it solved the problem - maybe it will be helpful for someone   thanks and cheers   Edit   Since I get many people thumbs up for the solution and had had first experience with Spring as student few years ago  I feel desire to explain shortly why it works   When the project is being compiled and packaged  all the files and subdirs from  src main java  in the project goes to the root directory of the packaged jar  the artifact we want to create   The same rule applies to  src main resources     This is a convention respected by many tools like maven or sbt in process of building project  note  as a default configuration    When code  from the post  was in running mode  it couldn t find nothing like  src main resources beans xml  due to the fact  that beans xml was in the root of jar  copied to  beans xml in created jar ear war     When using ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  the proper location declaration for beans xml definitions  in this case  was   beans xml   since this is path where it belongs in jar and later on in classpath   It can be verified by unpacking a jar with an archiver  i e  rar  and see its content with the directories structure    I would recommend reading articles about classpath as supplementary

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You have looked at src directory  The xml file indeed exist there  But look at class or bin build directory where all your output classes are set  I suspect you will need only resources beans xml path to use

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src main resources is a source directory  you should not be referencing it directly  When you build package the project the contents will be copied into the correct place for your classpath  You should then load it like this  new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  beans xml     Or like this  new GenericXmlApplicationContext  classpath beans xml

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This is because applicationContect xml or any filename XML is not placed under proper path   Trouble shooting Steps  1  Add the XML file under the resource folder   2  If you don t have a resource folder  Create one by navigating new by Right click on the project new   Source Folder  name it as resource and place your XML file under it

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I also had a similar problem but because of a bit different cause so sharing here in case it can help anybody   My file location    How I was using  ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  beans xml     There are two solutions   Take the beans xml out of package and put in default package  Specify package name while using it viz    ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  com mypackage beans xml

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This is what worked for me     new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  classpath beans xml

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Try this   new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  file src main resources beans xml     file  preffix point to file system resources  not classpath   file path can be relative or system   home user Work src

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Beans xml or file XML is not placed under proper path  You should add the XML file under the resource folder  if you have a Maven project  src -  main -  java -  resources

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I did the opposite of most  I am using Force IDE Luna Java EE and I placed my Beans xml file within the package  however  I preceded the Beans xml string  - for the ClassPathXMLApplicationContext argument -  with the relative path  So in my main application -  the one which accesses the Beans xml file - I have        ApplicationContext context             new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  com tutorialspoin Beans xml      I also noticed that as soon as I moved the Beans xml file into the package from the src folder  there was a Bean image at the lower left side of the XML file icon which was not there when this xml file was outside the package  That is a good indicator in letting me know that now the beans xml file is accessible by ClassPathXMLAppllicationsContext

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I was not sure to write it but maybe someone save a few hours   mvn clean   may do the job if your whole configuration is already perfect

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In Spring all source files are inside src main java  Similarly  the resources are generally kept inside src main resources  So keep your spring configuration file inside resources folder   Make sure you have the ClassPath entry for your files inside src main resources as well   In  classpath check for the following 2 lines  If they are missing add them    lt classpathentry path  src main java  kind  src   gt   lt classpathentry path  src main resources  kind  src    gt    So  if you have everything in place the below code should work   ApplicationContext ctx   new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  Spring-Module xml

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If this problem is still flummoxing you and you are developing using Eclipse  have a look at this Eclipse bug  Resources files from  src main resources  are not correctly included in classpath   Solution seems to be look at properties of project  Java build path  source folders  Delete the  src main resources dir and add it again  This causes Eclipse to be reminded it needs to copy these files to the classpath   This bug affected me when using the  Neon  release of Eclipse   And was very frustrating until I realized the simple fix just described

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I was experiencing this issue and it was driving me nuts  I ultimately found the following lying in my POM xml  which was the cause of the problem    lt resources gt       lt resource gt           lt directory gt src main resources lt  directory gt           lt filtering gt true lt  filtering gt           lt includes gt               lt include gt      properties lt  include gt           lt  includes gt       lt  resource gt   lt  resources gt

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Note that the first applicationContext is loaded as part of web xml  which is mentioned with the below    lt context-param gt       lt param-name gt contextConfigLocation lt  param-name gt       lt param-value gt META-INF spring applicationContext xml lt  param-value gt   lt  context-param gt    lt servlet gt       lt servlet-name gt myOwn-controller lt  servlet-name gt       lt servlet-class gt org springframework web servlet DispatcherServlet lt  servlet-class gt       lt init-param gt           lt param-name gt contextConfigLocation lt  param-name gt           lt param-value gt META-INF spring applicationContext xml lt  param-value gt       lt  init-param gt       lt load-on-startup gt 1 lt  load-on-startup gt   lt  servlet gt    Where as below code will also tries to create one more applicationContext   private static final ApplicationContext context                   new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  beans xml      See the difference between beans xml and applicationContext xml  And if appliationContext xml under  lt META-INF spring  gt  has declared with  lt import resource  beans xml   gt  then this appliationContext xml is loading the beans xml under the same location META-INF spring of appliationContext xml   Where as  in the code  if it is declared like below  ApplicationContext context   new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  beans xml      This is looking the beans xml at WEB-INF classes OR in eclipse src main resources    If you have added beans xml at src main resources then it might be placed at WEB-INF classes while creating the WAR    So totally TWO files are looked up   I have resolved this issue by adding classpath lookup while importing at applicationContext xml like below   lt import resource  classpath  beans xml    gt    and removed the the line ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  beans xml   in java code  so that there will be only one ApplicationContext loaded

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I suspect you re building a  war  jar and consequently it s no longer a file  but a resource within that package  Try ClassLoader getResourceAsStream String path  instead

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