Unable to Import persistence.xml within applicationContext.xml file - spring

Question

I'm using eclipse juno IDE
I have Java application which have src folder. within the folder I have:
1) applicationContext.xml
2) persistence.xml
I also have DBInterface and i implemented it with JPA.
Now in the applicationContext.xml file I have a bean for the JPA implemention.
When I tried to inject the bean i got an excpetion that said something like "No Persistence Provider was found".
So I tried to import the persistence file within the applicationContext file but i'm getting another exception.
applicationContext.xml
<?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:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd"
xmlns:flow="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config/spring-webflow-config-1.0.xsd"
xmlns:jms="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms/spring-jms-2.5.xsd"
xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-2.5.xsd"
xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang-2.5.xsd"
xmlns:osgi="http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi/spring-osgi.xsd"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.5.xsd"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd/spring-spring-aop-2.5.xsd-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd/spring-spring-context-2.5.xsd-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config/spring-webflow-config-1.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config/spring-webflow-config-1.0.xsd/spring-spring-webflow-config-1.0.xsd-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms/spring-jms-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms/spring-jms-2.5.xsd/spring-spring-jms-2.5.xsd-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-2.5.xsd/spring-spring-jee-2.5.xsd-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang-2.5.xsd/spring-spring-lang-2.5.xsd-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi/spring-osgi.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi/spring-osgi.xsd/spring-spring-osgi.xsd-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd/spring-spring-tx-2.5.xsd-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.5.xsd/spring-spring-util-2.5.xsd-2.5.xsd">
<bean id="JPA" class="pack.jpa.JPAQueries"/>
<import resource="persistence.xml"/>
</beans>
persistence.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" version="1.0">
<persistence-unit transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL" name="MyJPA">
<provider>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider</provider>
<class>pack.bl.Travels</class>
<class>pack.bl.Example</class>
<properties> <property name="hibernate.cache.provider_class" value="org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider"/>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/taxis"/>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value=""/>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="root"/>
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
mainClass
public class Program {
/**
* #param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
ApplicationContext context = new
ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml");
DBInterface dao = (DBInterface)context.getBean("JPA",JPAQueries.class);
dao.retrieveRecords();
}
Exception
Exception in thread "main"
org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration
problem: Failed to import bean definitions from relative location [persistence.xml]
Offending resource: class path resource [applicationContext.xml]; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration
problem: Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace
[http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence]
Offending resource: class path resource [persistence.xml]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.FailFastProblemReporter.error(FailFastProblemReporter.java:68)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderContext.java:85)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderContext.java:76)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:271)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseDefaultElement(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:196)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:181)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.doRegisterBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:140)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:111)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:493)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:390)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:334)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:174)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:209)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:180)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:243)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:127)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:93)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:131)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:527)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:441)
at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139)
at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83)
at pack.program.Program.main(Program.java:16)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace [http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence]
Offending resource: class path resource [persistence.xml]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.FailFastProblemReporter.error(FailFastProblemReporter.java:68)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderContext.java:85)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderContext.java:80)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.error(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:317)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1428)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1421)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:190)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.doRegisterBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:140)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:111)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:493)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:390)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:334)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:255)
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Answer 1

Your attempt to use persistence.xml as a Spring config makes absolutely no sense, because persistence.xml is not a Spring config.
If you want to use JPA with Spring, you need to put persistence.xml into META-INF folder inside your source folder, and declare LocalContainerEntityManagerFactory in applicationContext.xml:
<bean id="emf" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name = "persistenceUnitName" value = "MyJPA" />
</bean>
Then you can inject EntityManager into your Spring bean using #PersistenceContext:
#PersistenceContext
private EntityManager em;
See also:
13.5 JPA

Answer 2

It should be imported as follows:
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/persistence.xml"/>
assuming the persistence.xml is present in META-INF directory which is a top-level directory in one of your jars on the classpath.

Answer 3

Ok, I Solved this..
What i did is to put the persistence.xml file within the META-INF folder
as vikdor and axtavt suggested. but in the application context i didn't import any file..
just wrote this
<bean id="JPA" class="pack.jpa.JPAQueries"/>
and its work!