Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace in OSGi (Karaf) with Web Application Bundle

Question

I am trying to deploy the Web Application Bundle in karaf, but somehow Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace even after proper schema.

What could be the issue?

Karaf version : 3.0.0
Spring version : 3.2.x
Jetty version : 8.x

More details below:

Error while deploying:

    org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: 
   Configuration problem: Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema 
  namespace   [http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc]

Context class

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextClass</param-name>
    <param-value>org.springframework.osgi.web.context.support.OsgiBundleXmlWebApplicationContext</param-value>
</context-param>

Context file:

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd  
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">

<mvc:resources mapping="/mydcos/**" location="file:/opt/mydocs/css/" />

Answer 1

Make sure you have spring-webmvc installed in Karaf. Spring DM is kinda legacy but MVC namespace handler is registered in same way as rest of them.