no declaration can be found for element 'context:annotation-config'
You are using an XML namespace (in this case context) without declaring it
Change your xml to this:
<?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-3.1.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">You were also referencing http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd, which I don't think exists.
Take attention: when you use context namespace, you should update in XML head 2 attributes:
xmlns:contextxsi:schemaLocation.
Beginners used to add only xmlns:context and forget about 2 new entries to xsi:schemaLocation:
<beans xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd"......>
If using Spring 4.0, here's what I found:
<?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-4.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context">It worked for me. Found the reference here: http://javahash.com/spring-4-mvc-hello-world-tutorial-full-example/