Schema Error Spring BML xmlns

We have built a spring-batch application using eclipse. Whenever I execute program through eclipse, it just runs fine. But when I try to generate and run a jar file created using ant, I get this ugly stack trace.

2012-Dec-27 11:10:30,880 1141 [main][] ERROR (CommandLineJobRunner.java:355): Job Terminated in error: Line 12 in XML document from class path resource [launch-context.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'. org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 12 in XML document from class path resource [launch-context.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'. at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:396) 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:143) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:149) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:212) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:126) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:92) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:130) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:467) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:397) at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139) at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83) at org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.CommandLineJobRunner.start(CommandLineJobRunner.java:282) at org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.CommandLineJobRunner.main(CommandLineJobRunner.java:574) at com.my.path.invoker.JobTest.main(JobTest.java:25) Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'. at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:195) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:131) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:384) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:318) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.handleStartElement(XMLSchemaValidator.java:1916) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.startElement(XMLSchemaValidator.java:705) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:400) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl$NSContentDriver.scanRootElementHook(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:626) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:3103) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:922) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:140) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:511) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:808) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:119) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:235) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:284) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultDocumentLoader.loadDocument(DefaultDocumentLoader.java:75) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:388) ... 16 more

Its basically saying that at line 11 it cannot find declaration for element beans. Here is my launch-context.

<?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:batch="http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch"
        xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
        xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
        xsi:schemaLocation="
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch/spring-batch-2.1.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-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/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

        <bean id="placeholderConfig"
            class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
            <property name="locations">
                <list>
                    <value>file:batch.properties</value>
                    <value>file:application.properties</value>
                </list>
            </property>
        </bean>

        <context:component-scan base-package="com.my.path" />

        <import resource="classpath:/META-INF/spring/batch-context.xml" />
        <import resource="classpath:/META-INF/spring/module-context.xml" />

    </beans>

and my build.xml that generated the jar.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- WARNING: Eclipse auto-generated file.
              Any modifications will be overwritten.
              To include a user specific buildfile here, simply create one in the same
              directory with the processing instruction <?eclipse.ant.import?>
              as the first entry and export the buildfile again. -->
<project basedir="." default="jar" name="ERS2Utilities">
    <property environment="env"/>
    <property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
    <property name="target" value="1.6"/>
    <property name="source" value="1.6"/>
    <path id="CLASSPATH">
        <pathelement location="target/classes"/>
        <pathelement location="target/test-classes"/>
        <!--
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/antlr-2.7.7.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/antlr-runtime-3.2.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.instrument.tomcat-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.jms-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.js-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.web-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.web.portlet-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.web.servlet-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.web.struts-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.webflow-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/slf4j-api.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-digester.jar"/>
         -->
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/com.springsource.org.aopalliance-1.0.0.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.aop-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.asm-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.aspects-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.beans-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.binding-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.context-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.context.support-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.core-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.expression-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.instrument-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.jdbc-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.orm-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.oxm-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.test-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/org.springframework.transaction-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/spring-batch-infrastructure-2.1.9.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/spring-batch-core-2.1.9.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/spring-batch-test-2.1.9.RELEASE.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-beanutils.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-collections-3.1.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-dbcp-1.4.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-lang-2.6.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-pool-1.5.4.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/junit-4.7.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/ojdbc14.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/HashUtility.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/commons-io-2.4.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="src/main/resources/lib/mockito-all-1.9.5.jar"/>
    </path>
    <target name="init">
        <mkdir dir="target/classes"/>
        <mkdir dir="target/test-classes"/>
        <copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="target/classes">
            <fileset dir="src/main/resources">
                <exclude name="**/*.java"/>
            </fileset>
        </copy>
        <copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="target/classes">
            <fileset dir="src/main/java">
                <exclude name="**/*.java"/>
            </fileset>
        </copy>
        <copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="target/test-classes">
            <fileset dir="src/test/java">
                <exclude name="**/*.java"/>
            </fileset>
        </copy>
        <copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="target/classes">
            <fileset dir="src/test/resources">
                <exclude name="**/*.java"/>
            </fileset>
        </copy>
    </target>
    <target name="clean">
        <delete dir="target/classes"/>
        <delete dir="target/test-classes"/>
    </target>

    <target depends="init" name="build-project">
        <echo message="${ant.project.name}: ${ant.file}"/>
        <javac debug="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" destdir="target/classes" source="${source}" target="${target}">
            <src path="src/main/resources"/>
            <classpath refid="CLASSPATH"/>
        </javac>
        <javac debug="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" destdir="target/classes" source="${source}" target="${target}">
            <src path="src/main/java"/>
            <classpath refid="CLASSPATH"/>
        </javac>
        <javac debug="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" destdir="target/test-classes" source="${source}" target="${target}">
            <src path="src/test/java"/>
            <classpath refid="CLASSPATH"/>
        </javac>
        <javac debug="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" destdir="target/classes" source="${source}" target="${target}">
            <src path="src/test/resources"/>
            <classpath refid="CLASSPATH"/>
        </javac>
    </target>

    <!-- <target description="compile project with Eclipse compiler" name="build-eclipse-compiler">
        <property name="build.compiler" value="org.eclipse.jdt.core.JDTCompilerAdapter"/>
        <antcall target="build"/>
    </target> -->

    <target name="JobTest">
        <java classname="com.my.path.invoker.JobTest" failonerror="true" fork="yes">
            <arg line="launch-context.xml oiaExtractorJob"/>
            <classpath refid="CLASSPATH"/>
        </java>
    </target>

    <target name="jar" depends="build-project">
        <copy todir="build/main" file="src/main/resources/log4j.xml"/>
        <copy todir="build/main" file="application.properties"/>
        <copy todir="build/main" file="batch.properties"/>
        <copy todir="build/main" file="src/main/resources/ERSUtilities.sh"/>
        <copy todir="build/main" file="src/main/resources/ERSUtilities.bat"/>

        <jar destfile="build/main/ERS2SupportingUtilities.jar">
            <fileset dir="target/classes"/>
            <restrict>
             <name name="**/*.class"/>
             <archives>
               <zips>
                 <fileset dir="./src/main/resources/lib" includes="**/*.jar"/>
               </zips>
             </archives>
            </restrict>
            <manifest>
              <attribute name="Main-Class" value="com.my.path.invoker.JobTest"/>
                <attribute name="Class-Path" value="./lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.context-3.0.3RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.asm-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/junit-4.7.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.orm-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.transaction-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.aspects-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/commons-pool-1.5.4.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.core-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
                                                    ./lib/HashUtility.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.expression-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/commons-lang-2.6.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.instrument-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/mockito-all-1.9.5.jar
                                                    ./lib/com.springsource.org.aopalliance-1.0.0.jar
                                                    ./lib/ojdbc14.jar
                                                    ./lib/commons-io-2.4.jar
                                                    ./lib/commons-collections-3.1.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.jdbc-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/spring-batch-infrastructure-2.1.9.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.context.support-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/commons-dbcp-1.4.jar
                                                    ./lib/spring-batch-test-2.1.9.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.beans-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.oxm-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.aop-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/commons-beanutils.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.binding-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/spring-batch-core-2.1.9.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./lib/org.springframework.test-3.0.3.RELEASE.jar
                                                    ./launch-context.xml
                                                    ./log4j.xml"
                />
            </manifest>
        </jar>
    </target>
</project>

I have spent more than a 3 days on this with no avail. I have made sure the xsd references I am making are compatible with the version of spring jar I am using.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit:

The same launch-context.xml works in eclipse, its when built through the given ant build.xml that it throws this error.

Edit 2:

I am trying to package all the dependent jars into one, fat jar. I've come across few posts which suggests that I can't do that. To reference packaged jar, I either need one-jar or eclipse's jarinjarloader. Otherwise I will have to keep dependent jars outside my main jar. I will try these options and get back if this is the real issue. Meanwhile, if any of you have any inputs on this edit, please update your answers, I will mark them as correct.

Does the XML editor/validator of your choice successfully validate your application context (the one you call launch-context)? It's not valid because http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch/spring-batch-2.1.xsd is not valid.

However, what you posted (is it only an excerpt?) doesn't even need the batch namespace. Hence, you can remove it thereby turning it into valid XML.