cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'

Question

I am trying to get a bean object to authenticate the user login functionality with Spring Security:

    ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
            "com/humandevice/drive/fx/util/applicationContext.xml");
    authenticationManager = (AuthenticationManager) context
            .getBean("authenticationManager");

My applicationContext.xml is below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.2.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.humandevice.drive.fx">
    <context:include-filter type="regex"
        expression="com.humandevice.drive.fx.*" />
</context:component-scan>
<bean id="LoginController" alias="loginController" class="controller.LoginController">
    <property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager" />
    <property name="applicationContext" ref="applicationContext" />
</bean>
<bean id="applicationContext" alias="applicationContext"
    class="org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;">
</bean>
<authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
    <authentication-provider user-service-ref="userService">
        <password-encoder ref="bCryptPasswordEncoder" />
    </authentication-provider>
</authentication-manager>
 </beans>

but I get this exception:

Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 9; columnNumber: 64; cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'.

I am having difficulty understanding the issue.

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Update

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I have made some changes to my XML as such:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
    xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:task="http://www.springframework.org/schema/task"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/task http://www.springframework.org/schema/task/spring-task.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.2.xsd">

    <import resource="/context-service.xml" />
    <import resource="/context-repository.xml" />

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.humandevice.drive.fx"></context:component-scan>

    <authentication-manager>
        <authentication-provider user-service-ref="com.humandevice.drive.service.user.IUserService">
            <password-encoder ref="bCryptPasswordEncoder" />
        </authentication-provider>
    </authentication-manager>
</beans:beans>

I now receive this exception:

lineNumber: 11; columnNumber: 44; cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'import'.

Answer 1

Your default namespace is http://www.springframework.org/schema/security and you configured xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"this means you have to add the prefix beans: to all the tag form http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans so your XML should be as follows.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
       xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.2.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context">
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.humandevice.drive.fx">
        <context:include-filter type="regex"
                                expression="com.humandevice.drive.fx.*" />
    </context:component-scan>
    <beans:bean id="LoginController" alias="loginController" class="controller.LoginController">
        <beans:property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager" />
        <beans:property name="applicationContext" ref="applicationContext" />
    </beans:bean>
    <beans:bean id="applicationContext" alias="applicationContext"
          class="org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;">
    </beans:bean>
    <authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
        <authentication-provider user-service-ref="userService">
            <password-encoder ref="bCryptPasswordEncoder" />
        </authentication-provider>
    </authentication-manager>
</beans:beans>