Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace

Question

I am not sure if this is the best practice approach but this is the problem I am ruining into. Below, I explain what I am doing:
1) What I am doing:
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Based on the oracle incubator example (http://coherence.oracle.com/display/INCUBATOR/Processing+Pattern+Examples); I am running a server and submitting tasks through a proxy application that submits them to ProcessingPatternConfigurator; let's call my task processReport.
a) my processReport is using spring and ibatis together, I created a utility static class to obtain a spring context and retrieves beans using the following lines ( see exhibit "A1 and A2" below).
b) when my task calls the context and that spring loads, it is failing with the error show in exhibit "B".
I suspect I am missing a lib? I googled the error and searched you site but could find a meaningful discussion on it. I guess my question is if this is not the best approach, how do I integrated with spring initializing beans and setting up ibatis framwork, providing beans and database access through Ibatis for each task ruining on the grid (processReport).
thanks
A1) processReport (submitted in the grid) uses this line
AbstractXmlApplicationContext ctx = (AbstractXmlApplicationContext) AmrContextUtil.getInstance();
          System.out.println("Classpath loaded. Executing Report...");
          ReportProcessor repProcessor = (ReportProcessor) ctx.getBean("reportProcessor");
A2) Here is the AmrContextUtil:
import org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
public final class AmrContextUtil {
     private static AbstractApplicationContext ctx = null;
     public AmrContextUtil() {
          super();
     public final static synchronized AbstractApplicationContext getInstance(){
          if (ctx == null){
               ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("classpath:config/applicationContext.xml");
               setCtx(ctx);
          return ctx;
     public final static synchronized AbstractApplicationContext getCtx() {
          return ctx;
     public final static synchronized void setCtx(AbstractApplicationContext ctx) {
          AmrContextUtil.ctx = ctx;
B) Here is the error reported by the server:
2010-02-10 15:42:28.312/57.986 Oracle Coherence GE 3.5.2/463 <Warning> (thread=GridExecutor:Thread-2
, member=1): TaskRunner - Failed to process 0x00000126B99E5524AC1F007AAB1587BBCFEC5E6637E1DED6CCB984
03D6AADF4D due to:org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Failed to import bean definitions from URL location [classpath:config/reports-application.xml] Offending resource: class path resource [config/applicationContext.xml]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Unexpected failure during bean definition parsing
Offending resource: class path resource [config/reports-application.xml] Bean 'reportSqlMapConfig'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: *Configuration problem: Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace [http://www.springframework.org/schema/util]*
*Offending resource: class path resource [config/reports-application.xml] Bean 'reportSqlMapConfig'*
-> Property 'resourceMap'
c)Here is my application-context.xml offending line:
<bean id="reportSqlMapConfig"
class="com.xx.report.generator.ReportSqlMapConfig">
<property name="resourceMap">
<map>
<entry>
<key>
<util:constant static-field="com.xx.report.domain.ReportType.FPA"/>
</key>
<value>classpath:config/diehardReportSqlMapConfig.xml</value>
</entry>
<entry>
<key>
<util:constant static-field="com.xx.report.domain.ReportType.FCN"/>
</key>
<value>classpath:config/falconReportSqlMapConfig.xml</value>
</entry>
<entry>
<key>
<util:constant static-field="com.xx.report.domain.ReportType.ODS"/>
</key>
<value>classpath:config/odsReportSqlMapConfig.xml</value>
</entry>
</map>
</property>
</bean>

Answer 1

My guess is that something is broken in the configuration of the cacheServer and its not finding
all of the dependencies that your process pattern application needs. Probably the best way
to debug this stuff is to define a static main in your runnable task which will make the call
to the run() method and invoke it as the main class using the identical settings (classpath,
run directory) that you are using to launch the Coherence cache server.
Regards,
Bob