The prefix "beans" for element "beans:beans" is not bound

I am trying to add CSS and JS to JSP page in a spring MVC project so that I have included the reference of js/css folder in dispatcher-servlet.xml as below:

<?xml  version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">


    <context:annotation-config />
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.asurion" />

    <resources mapping="/js/**" location="/js/" />
    <resources mapping="/css/**" location="/css/" />

    <beans:bean
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="prefix">
            <value>/WEB-INF/jsp/</value>
        </property>
        <property name="suffix">
            <value>.jsp</value>
        </property>
    </beans:bean>

    <beans:bean id="messageSource"
        class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
        <property name="basename" value="classpath:messages" />
        <property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
    </beans:bean>
    <beans:bean id="propertyConfigurer"
        class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
        p:location="/WEB-INF/jdbc.properties" />

    <beans:bean id="dataSource"
        class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close"
        p:driverClassName="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver"
        p:url="jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;DataBaseName=test" p:username="test"
        p:password="test" />


    <beans:bean id="sessionFactory"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <property name="configLocation">
            <value>classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
        </property>
        <property name="configurationClass">
            <value>org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration</value>
        </property>
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">com.asurion.dialect.SQlServerDBDialect</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </beans:bean>

    <beans:bean id="reportDAO" class="com.asurion.dao.ReportDaoImpl"></beans:bean>
    <beans:bean id="reportManager" class="com.asurion.service.ReportManagerImpl"></beans:bean>

    <tx:annotation-driven />
    <beans:bean id="transactionManager"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
    </beans:bean>

</beans:beans>

But it is showing "The prefix "beans" for element "beans:beans" is not bound" in spring configuration file itself so can anyone help me out on this?

Jon Skeet
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Look at your root element declaration - you've specified namespaces for the prefixes mvc, xsi, context, p, and tx, but nothing for beans. You've made "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" the default namespace, but you haven't given it an alias of beans.

The simplest fix here is probably just to do a search and replace to remove beans: from the whole file - just let the default to its job.

Alternatively, change this:

xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

to

xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

... and then check every element which doesn't have an explicit namespace prefix to see whether you actually mean it to be beans. For example, consider:

<resources mapping="/js/**" location="/js/" />

If you're using explicit namespacing, that probably should be

<beans:resources mapping="/js/**" location="/js/" />

Although it sounds like it should actually be

<mvc:resources mapping="/js/**" location="/js/" />

It's in the beans namespace by default at the moment, but the mixture of defaulting and using a beans: prefix is very confusing...

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