Java – dispatcher-servlet: Invalid content was found starting with element ‘repositories’

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I'm trying to use:

<repositories base-package="com.site.cmt.repositories" repository-impl-postfix="">
    <repository id="variableRepository" />
</repositories>

but I keep getting this error:

org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 71 in XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 71; columnNumber: 94; cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with element 'repositories'. One of '{"http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans":import, "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans":alias, "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans":bean, WC[##other:"http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"], "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans":beans}' is expected.

I thought I was loading everything correctly…

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
       xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
       xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.1.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.1.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee 
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-3.1.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa-1.1.xsd">

Best Answer

The namespace for the repositories tag is wrong, just change it to:

<repository:repositories base-package="com.site.cmt.repositories" repository-impl-postfix="">
    <repository:repository id="variableRepository" />
</repository:repositories>

or set the default namespace of the xml to repository:

xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/repository"

Update: I am sorry, I got the namespace wrong, in your case actually you have used jpa as the prefix for the correct repository related namespace which is http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa, so you essentially have to use:

<jpa:repositories base-package="com.site.cmt.repositories" repository-impl-postfix="">
    <jpa:repository id="variableRepository" />
</jpa:repositories>

But it might be better to just re-assign the repository prefix to the http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa namespace instead, that is the normal convention

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