This error is due to incorrect parsing of the xml file. Using Eclipse to validate it gives the error:
cvc-complex-type.2.3: Element 'beans' cannot have character [children], because the type's content type is element-only.
There appears to be some strange character in between one or many of those <bean> declarations. Have you copied this text from somewhere else?
Remove all spaces and newline characters between <bean> definitions and put them back with your editor.
UPDATE Copying & pasting into notepad++ the text in the codepaste you provided, and setting the charset to UTF-8 showed these characters in the blank lines: xA0. This is the standard Unicode translation for . This is likely to be the cause of this problem.
This validates ok for me:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="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"> <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close"> <property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" /> <property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/HibernateDB" /> <property name="username" value="HibernateDB" /> <property name="password" value="java" /> </bean> <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean"> <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" /> <property name="configurationClass" value="org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration" /> <property name="annotatedClasses"> <list> <value>hdao.HibernateObject</value> </list> </property> </bean><bean id="springHibernateOperator" class="hdao.SpringHibernateOperatorImplementation"> <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" /> </bean> </beans>
