Eclipse not able to find Spring configuration file

Question

I am wetting my hands in Spring and using Eclipse along with Spring. I have written a very simple Spring application with eclipse to inject a property in a bean. However, when I am running my application, Spring is throwing exception and it seems that the Spring is not able to find the Spring configuration file. Below is the stacktrace --

INFO: Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [Beans.xml]
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from class path resource [Beans.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [Beans.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:341)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)

I have tried the following -- Give the full path in the ClassPathXmlApplicationContext method like --

ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("C:/Users/devshankhasharm/workspace/FinalPowerShell/src/src/main/Beans.xml");

I have also updated the ClassPath variable in windows to add the path for my spring configuration file. But nothing worked. Any idea would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

Try this

ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("classpath*:Beans.xml");

And of course your Beans.xml must be in classpath.

Update or maybe

ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("file:src/main/Beans.xml");