Error “The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'context:annotation-config'” via tomcat7

Question

I have faced with strange situation. When I run my project via intellij idea with following configuration - clean install tomcat7:run -e - everything processes successfully.

But when i manually copy .war file into the tomcat7 directory and start server i am getting an error in tomcat log:

SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 8 in XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring/spring.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 8; columnNumber: 33; cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'context:annotation-config'.

Here is my spring.xml:

<?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:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.1.xsd
                           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.1.xsd">

    <context:annotation-config/>
....

I have found some solutions regarding namespaces but they don't work for me.

Answer 1

Seems like you don't have the spring-context-4.1.x.RELEASE.jar in you war WEB-INF/lib directory.

Answer 2

I've fixed this problem. I think, that problem was in cashed data in target folder. After executing following command mvn clean package - problem is gone.