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How to import Spring application context from another maven module?

I have two modules in my project which are children of the main app.pom
<modules>
<module>commons</module>
<module>webapp</module>
</modules>
The webapp module refers to commons this way:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.app.whatever</groupId>
<artifactId>commons</artifactId>
<version>${project.version}</version>
</dependency>
The commons module is just packaged in .jar file and that's it. All their dependencies webapp and commons inherit from app.pom.
Both commons and webapp use Spring 3 with .xml files that describe application contexts.
In webapp module I want to use a bean from commons module. Here's applicationContext for commons:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.app.whatever.anything"/>
</beans>
For webapp applicationContext.xml I have:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">
<import resource="classpath*:/applicationContext-commons.xml"/>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.app.whatever.something.controller.spring"/>
But unfortunately this doesn't work. Constantly get an exception about no candidates for autowiring, though I can use any classes from the second module in the first one after setting the above maven dependency.
When I write this import without asterisk, it says that the file doesn't exist.
I tried without leading slash - the same exception.
This import works perfectly for any file from the same module and even for external libraries I have. But it can't resolve the file from this new commons module I've just created.
If you have any idea, that'd be really helpful, thanks

If it's not under a subdirectory, e.g. spring/applicationContext-commons.xml then the following (which you've already tried) should work:
<import resource="classpath*:applicationContext-commons.xml"/>
With an asterisk, Spring will use all matching files on the classpath, without the asterisk it will use the first one it finds.
Also, with the asterisk Spring will ignore the file if it wasn't found. Without the asterisk Spring will give an error if it can't find the file. Therefore your file is not on the classpath.
I'd check the location of applicationContext-commons.xml under the target folder to make sure <import resource= has the correct path and re-run mvn install from the root pom.

Spring mvc cannot find CacheInterceptor

I'm exploring cache in spring mvc framework. Following the guide on internet like here or here, i'm configuring:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:cache="http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache
http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache/spring-cache.xsd">
<cache:annotation-driven />
... other configuration are omitted....
</beans>
Before adding configuration for cache, my web app run normally, now, my web app start with error:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/cache/interceptor/CacheInterceptor
Not sure what i did wrong?

A NoClassDefFoundError is simply an exception that is thrown when java can't find a certain class that another library uses.
All this means is that when it gets thrown you just need to get it on the classpath. You can make sure it's there by going to libraries-> maven dependencies(if you are using maven) -> and then go to the location of the noclassdef that is being thrown, in your case it would be at org/springframework/cache/interceptor/CacheInterceptor, this is just so you know why you are getting this error, you should not see it now.
As for how to solve it, this could be happening because of 3 things:
Your maven dependencies are not on the deployment assemblies(libraries are in the project, but not on the server), although probably spring wouldn't work at all if this was the case.
You don't have the dependency, add this to pom.xml:
org.springframework
spring-context
4.1.4.RELEASE
You have conflicting spring versions, make all version tags the same.

Failed to read schema document Schema Cloudfoundry

I'm developing an app with Java and Spring and I'm trying to upload it to AppFog.
The application is working properly and it's working in AppFog, but in Eclipse I'm getting a very annoying error in my applicationContext.xml file.
According to the documentation in AppFog I have to set it up like this: Spring - AppFog Documentation
Snippet of my applicationContext.xml
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:cloud="http://schema.cloudfoundry.org/spring"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.1.xsd
http://schema.cloudfoundry.org/spring
http://schema.cloudfoundry.org/spring/cloudfoundry-spring.xsd">
<cloud:data-source id="dataSource">
In the tag cloud:data source I'm getting the error:
Multiple annotations found at this line:
- schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'http://schema.cloudfoundry.org/spring/cloudfoundry-spring.xsd',
because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>.
- cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'cloud:data-source'.
I've tried with http://schema.cloudfoundry.org/spring/cloudfoundry-spring-0.8.xsd and different versions but I'm always getting the same error.
I have included in my pom the next library too:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.cloudfoundry</groupId>
<artifactId>cloudfoundry-runtime</artifactId>
<version>0.8.1</version>
</dependency>
Some ideas?
Thanks!

So it looks like your app is working locally and on AppFog, but as you say the issue is a validation error in Eclipse. Are you using the Spring Tool Suite plugin? What should actually happen here is that the schema should be found within the Spring Jar file (the source is on Github https://github.com/cloudfoundry/vcap-java/blob/master/cloudfoundry-runtime/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.schemas) - I guess there should be a way of telling Eclipse to resolve it there, and I suspect that STS would actually know how to resolve it.

Spring 3.1 Namespace error Component Scan

I am using Spring 3.1.1 with mule.
The versions of the jars used inside mule are 3.1.1 RELEASE.
Inside my configuration XML which is a mule flow,
I am getting following SAX parser exception.
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with element 'context:component-scan'. One of '{"http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":annotations, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":description, "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans":beans, "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans":bean, "http://www.springframework.org/schema/context":property-placeholder, "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans":ref, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":global-property, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":configuration, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":notifications, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-extension, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-mixed-content-extension, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-agent, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-security-manager, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-transaction-manager, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-connector, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-global-endpoint, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-exception-strategy, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-flow-construct, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":flow, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":sub-flow, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-model, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-interceptor-stack, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-filter, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-transformer, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":processor-chain, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":custom-processor, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":invoke, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-global-intercepting-message-processor, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":custom-queue-store, "http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core":abstract-processing-strategy}' is expected.
My mule flow is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mule xmlns="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core" xmlns:http="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http" xmlns:jms="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/jms" xmlns:doc="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/documentation" xmlns:spring="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:core="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core" version="CE-3.3.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http/current/mule-http.xsd
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/jms http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/jms/current/mule-jms.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-current.xsd
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core/current/mule.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.comviva.mfs.eig.logging.dataAccess" />
<jms:activemq-connector name="Active_MQ" brokerURL="tcp://localhost:61616" validateConnections="true" doc:name="Active MQ"/>
I made sure that both xsi:schemaLocation and xmlns:context are declared.
Cannot figure out why sax parser exception is occurring.
Please Help me out.
Update:
Any Solution to Separate both the XML files will also work for me.
Please help me how to maintain separate ApplicationContext.xml for spring in our mule application.

I think you cannot use <context:component-scan> as a direct child of <mule>. Try the following:
<mule ...>
<spring:beans>
<context:component-scan ... />
</spring:beans>
</mule>

This is answer for the Update part of your question:
You can move <context:component-scan> alone to a new context file this way:
appnewcontext.xml:
<context:component-scan base-package="com.comviva.mfs.eig.logging.dataAccess" />
and import into the main one:
<beans:import resource="appnewcontext.xml"/>

You can ignore the resource is not defined error. That is a bug but doesn't impact your application from running.

Validating spring config xml Files in Java

i want to validate some files looking like this:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/task http://www.springframework.org/schema/task/spring-task-3.0.xsd />
...
<bean>...</bean>
...
</beans>
Some of them have more xmlns and locations and some less. Someone knows if there is any api where u just give in such files and it will validate it in java?
greetings

Spring will validate spring configuration files. You can write a junit that loads your configuration to test if the configuration files are formatted correctly.

There you go.
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1,5,0/docs/api/javax/xml/validation/package-summary.html
You can wrap it and make parser that will first extract schemas, then use them for validation.