[Springframework-developer] Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler...

[Tobias K. <tux...@de...>]

Hi together,

I am new to the spring framework and I encounter serious problems. I use
Eclipse and my project using Spring 2.5.1 works very well. But the
application I develop will be an OpenOffice extension and here the
problems beginn. An OpenOffice Extension is a zip compressed file with
the extension .oxt. Here the relevant part of my extension (name:
JudasComponent.oxt):
JudasComponent.oxt
 |-> conf/
 |    |-> applicationContext-YaCupDB.xml
 |    |-> jdbc.properties
 |    |-> log4j.properties
 |-> lib/
 |    |-> spring.jar
 |    |-> other relevant jars
 |-> META-INF/
 |    |-> manifest.xml
 |-> JudasComponent.uno.jar
 |    |-> de/
 |    |    |-> classes of the OpenOffice Extension
 |    |-> META-INF/
 |    |    |-> MANIFEST.MF
 |-> other files, irrelevant for spring

When starting my OpenOffice Extension, i get the following error:
-----%<-----
org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException:
Configuration problem: Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML
schema namespace [http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx]
Offending resource: URL
[file:/home/tobias/.openoffice.org2/user/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/g9A3TQ_/JudasComponent.oxt/conf/applicationContext-YaCupDB.xml]
...
-----%<-----

As far I researched, the reason for this error is that the
spring.handlers file is not found. Why does it work when starting my
application within Eclipse and not as an OpenOffice Extension? Can
someone help me to solve this issue?

Help is highly appreciated!

Greetings, Tobias