This is my web.xml
xsd
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
version="3.0">
Here is servlet node
<servlet>
<servlet-name>spring1</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
<init-param> <!-- here is a problem -->
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
On the marked line xml validator says
cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with element 'init-param'. One of '{"http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee":enabled, "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee":async-supported, "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee":run-as, "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee":security-role-ref, "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee":multipart-config}' is expected.
What is wrong and how do I correct this error?
The order of elements in web.xml
matters and in all examples I've come across, the <load-on-startup>
comes after <init-param>
.
<servlet>
<servlet-name>spring1</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
You would think that there is a NICE way of saying that! instead of Invalid content was found starting with element 'init-param'. Maybe a case of RTFM...then id be busy reading till the cows come home...
This is madness. It also needs to come before
<async-supported>
@CraigOtis just changed
<async-supported>
place to after<init-param>
and saved. After that changed back to its old place and saved. Problem is gone now. Eclipse is the best IDE ever :) eclipse 2019-03