We have built a spring-batch application using eclipse. Whenever I execute program through eclipse, it just runs fine. But when I try to generate and run a jar file created using ant, I get this ugly stack trace.\[quote\] 2012-Dec-27 11:10:30,880 1141 [main][] ERROR (CommandLineJobRunner.java:355): Job Terminated in error: Line 12 in XML document from class path resource [launch-context.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'. org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 12 in XML document from class path resource [launch-context.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'. at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:396) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:334) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:149) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:212) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:126) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:92) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:130) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:467) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:397) at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139) at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83) at org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.CommandLineJobRunner.start(CommandLineJobRunner.java:282) at org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.CommandLineJobRunner.main(CommandLineJobRunner.java:574) at com.my.path.invoker.JobTest.main(JobTest.java:25) Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'. at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:195) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:131) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:384) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:318) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.handleStartElement(XMLSchemaValidator.java:1916) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.startElement(XMLSchemaValidator.java:705) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:400) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl$NSContentDriver.scanRootElementHook(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:626) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:3103) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:922) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:140) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:511) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:808) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:119) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:235) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:284) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultDocumentLoader.loadDocument(DefaultDocumentLoader.java:75) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:388) ... 16 more\[/quote\]Its basically saying that at line 11 it cannot find declaration for element beans. Here is my launch-context.\[code\]<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:batch="http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch/spring-batch-2.1.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd"> <bean id="placeholderConfig" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"> <property name="locations"> <list> <value>file:batch.properties</value> <value>file:application.properties</value> </list> </property> </bean> <context:component-scan base-package="com.my.path" /> <import resource="classpath:/META-INF/spring/batch-context.xml" /> <import resource="classpath:/META-INF/spring/module-context.xml" /> </beans>\[/code\]and my build.xml that generated the jar.\[code\]<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><!-- WARNING: Eclipse auto-generated file. Any modifications will be overwritten. To include a user specific buildfile here, simply create one in the same directory with the processing instruction <?eclipse.ant.import?> as the first entry and export the buildfile again. --><project basedir="." default="jar" name="ERS2Utilities"> <property environment="env"/> <property name="debuglevel" value="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14067314/source,lines,vars"/> <property name="target" value="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14067314/1.6"/> <property name="source" value="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14067314/1.6"/> <path id="CLASSPATH"> <pathelement location="target/classes"/> <pathelement location="target/test-classes"/> <!-- <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/antlr-2.7.7.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/antlr-runtime-3.2.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.instrument.tomcat-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.jms-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.js-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.web-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.web.portlet-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.web.servlet-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.web.struts-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.webflow-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/slf4j-api.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-digester.jar"/> --> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/com.springsource.org.aopalliance-1.0.0.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.aop-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.asm-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.aspects-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.beans-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.binding-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.context-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.context.support-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.core-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.expression-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.instrument-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.jdbc-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.orm-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.oxm-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.test-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.transaction-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/spring-batch-infrastructure-2.1.9.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/spring-batch-core-2.1.9.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/spring-batch-test-2.1.9.RELEASE.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-beanutils.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-collections-3.1.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-dbcp-1.4.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-lang-2.6.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-pool-1.5.4.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/junit-4.7.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/ojdbc14.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/HashUtility.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-io-2.4.jar"/> <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/mockito-all-1.9.5.jar"/> </path> <target name="init"> <mkdir dir="target/classes"/> <mkdir dir="target/test-classes"/> <copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="target/classes"> <fileset dir="src/main/resources"> <exclude name="**/*.java"/> </fileset> </copy> <copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="target/classes"> <fileset dir="src/main/java"> <exclude name="**/*.java"/> </fileset> </copy> <copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="target/test-classes"> <fileset dir="src/test/java"> <exclude name="**/*.java"/> </fileset> </copy> <copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="target/classes"> <fileset dir="src/test/resources"> <exclude name="**/*.java"/> </fileset> </copy> </target> <target name="clean"> <delete dir="target/classes"/> <delete dir="target/test-classes"/> </target> <target depends="init" name="build-project"> <echo message="${ant.project.name}: ${ant.file}"/> <javac debug="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" destdir="target/classes" source="${source}" target="${target}"> <src path="src/main/resources"/> <classpath refid="CLASSPATH"/> </javac> <javac debug="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" destdir="target/classes" source="${source}" target="${target}"> <src path="src/main/java"/> <classpath refid="CLASSPATH"/> </javac> <javac debug="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" destdir="target/test-classes" source="${source}" target="${target}"> <src path="src/test/java"/> <classpath refid="CLASSPATH"/> </javac> <javac debug="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" destdir="target/classes" source="${source}" target="${target}"> <src path="src/test/resources"/> <classpath refid="CLASSPATH"/> </javac> </target> <!-- <target description="compile project with Eclipse compiler" name="build-eclipse-compiler"> <property name="build.compiler" value="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14067314/org.eclipse.jdt.core.JDTCompilerAdapter"/> <antcall target="build"/> </target> --> <target name="JobTest"> <java classname="com.my.path.invoker.JobTest" failonerror="true" fork="yes"> <arg line="launch-context.xml oiaExtractorJob"/> <classpath refid="CLASSPATH"/> </java> </target> <target name="jar" depends="build-project"> <copy todir="build/main" file="src/main/resources/log4j.xml"/> <copy todir="build/main" file="application.properties"/> <copy todir="build/main" file="batch.properties"/> <copy todir="build/main" file="src/main/resources/ERSUtilities.sh"/> <copy todir="build/main" file="src/main/resources/ERSUtilities.bat"/> <jar destfile="build/main/ERS2SupportingUtilities.jar"> <fileset dir="target/classes"/> <restrict> <name name="**/*.class"/> <archives> <zips> <fileset dir="./src/main/resources/lib" includes="**/*.jar"/> </zips> </archives> </restrict> <manifest> <attribute name="Main-Class" value="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14067314/com.my.path.invoker.JobTest"/> <attribute name="Class-Path" value="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14067314/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar ./lib/org.springframework.context-3.0.3RELEASE.jar ./lib/org.springframework.asm-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar ./lib/junit-4.7.jar ./lib/org.springframework.orm-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar ./lib/org.springframework.transaction-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar ./lib/org.springframework.aspects-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar ./lib/commons-pool-1.5.4.jar ./lib/org.springframework.core-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar ./lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar ./lib/HashUtility.jar ./lib/org.springframework.expression-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar ./lib/commons-lang-2.6.jar ./lib/org.springframework.instrument-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar ./lib/mockito-all-1.9.5.jar ./lib/com.springsource.org.aopalliance-1.0.0.jar ./lib/ojdbc14.jar ./lib/commons-io-2.4.jar ./lib/commons-collections-3.1.jar ./lib/org.springframework.jdbc-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar ./lib/spring-batch-infrastructure-2.1.9.RELEASE.jar ./lib/org.springframework.context.support-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar ./lib/commons-dbcp-1.4.jar ./lib/spring-batch-test-2.1.9.RELEASE.jar ./lib/org.springframework.beans-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar ./lib/org.springframework.oxm-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar ./lib/org.springframework.aop-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar ./lib/commons-beanutils.jar ./lib/org.springframework.binding-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar ./lib/spring-batch-core-2.1.9.RELEASE.jar ./lib/org.springframework.test-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar ./launch-context.xml ./log4j.xml" /> </manifest> </jar> </target></project>\[/code\]I have spent more than a 3 days on this with no avail. I have made sure the xsd references I am making are compatible with the version of spring jar I am using.Any help would be greatly appreciated.