Spring - applicationContext xml cannot be opened because it does not exist

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I have a Spring MVC application and a problem with JUnit tests combined with the file applicationContext xml   In my JUnit test class I write   final ApplicationContext context   new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  applicationContext xml    service    TestServiceImpl  context getBean  testServiceImpl      The error I get is that aplicationContect xml can not be found      org springframework beans factory BeanDefinitionStoreException  IOException parsing XML document from class path resource  applicationContext xml   nested exception is java io FileNotFoundException  class path resource  applicationContext xml  cannot be opened because it does not exist   But it exists in the WEB-INF folder   So  what s wrong here  Why does the file not exist for the JUnit test

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Click on the src main java folder and right click and create the xml file  If you create the application xml file in a subpackage other than    it will not work   Know your structure is look like this  package     subpackage       Abc java      Test java   application xml

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I got the same error   I solved it moving the file applicationContext xmlin a   sub-folder of the srcfolder  e g   context   new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext   com ejemplo dao applicationContext xml

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You should keep your Spring files in another folder  marked as  source   just like  src  or  resources     WEB-INF is not a source folder  therefore it will not be included in the classpath  i e  JUnit will not look for anything there

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enter image description here I was struggling since a couple of hours for this issue because i was putting that file under resources folder but it didn t help me  finally i realized my mistake  Put it directly under src main java

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I placed the applicationContext xml in the src main java folder and it worked

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If you use maven  create a directory called resources in the main directory  and then copy your applicationContext xml into it   From your java code call    ApplicationContext appCtx   new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  applicationContext xml

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While working with Maven got same issue then I put XML file into src main java path and it worked   ApplicationContext context new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  spring xml

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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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just change the containing package of your applicationContext xml file   applicationContext xml must be in src package not in your project package   e g        src main package           com yourPackageName package within src           classes etc       applicationContext xml within src but outside of yourPackage or we can say                              parallel to yourPackage name

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I fixed it by adding applicationContext xml into jar target test-classes for Maven project  And use          XmlBeanFactory bf   new XmlBeanFactory  new ClassPathResource                    applicationContext xml   getClass         instead of           XmlBeanFactory bf   new XmlBeanFactory  new ClassPathResource                    WEB-INF applicationContext xml   getClass

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You actually need to understand the ApplicationContext  It is an interface and it will have different implementations based on configuration   As you are using new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  applicationContext xml      kindly pay attention to initial right hand-side   it says ClassPathXmlApplicationContext   so the XML must be present in the class path  So drag your applicationContext xml wherever it is to the src folder      Gist  new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext as the name    ClassPathXml will look for the xml file in the src folder of your   project  so drag your xml file there only      ClassPathXmlApplicationContext   Loads a context definition from an XML file located in the classpath  treating context definition files as classpath resources     FileSystemXmlApplicationContext   Loads a context definition from an XML file in the file system     XmlWebApplicationContext   Loads context definitions from an XML file contained within a web application

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This happens to me from time to time when using eclipse For some reason  eclipse bug    the  excluded  parameter gets a value      build path for my resources folder   Just change the exclusion to none  see red rectangle vs green rectangle  I hope this helps someone in the future because it was very frustrating to find

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Please do This code - it worked   AbstractApplicationContext context  new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  spring-config xml      o w  Delete main method class and recreate it while recreating please uncheck Inherited abstract method its worked

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I got the same issue while working on a maven project  so I recreate the configuration file spring xml in src main java and it worked for me

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I m using Netbeans  i solved my problem by putting the file in  Other Sources default package  then i called it in this way   ApplicationContext context  new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  bean xml     resources folder

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your-module src applicationContext xml  val context   ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  applicationContext xml     Check the directory path  the default path is  src  and not     GL

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The ClassPathXmlApplicationContext isn t going to find the applicationContext xml in your WEB-INF folder  it s not on the classpath  You could copy the application context into your classpath  could put it under src test resources and let Maven copy it over  when running the tests

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I solved it moving the file spring-context xml in a src folder   ApplicationContext context   new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  spring-context xml

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I also found this problem  What do did to solve this is to copy paste this file everywhere and run  one file a time  Finally it compiled and ran successfully  and then delete the unnecessary ones  The correct place in my situation is    This is under the  src  path  I am using Intellij Idea as the IDE   The other java source files are under  src com package  path  Hope it helpes

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