When starting my OpenPatrician application from within Eclipse everything worked fine. But when using the assembly everything fell apart. The reason for this is simple, once figured out. I am creating an assembly of all the modules and their dependencies. Should it happen, that different dependencies provide the same resource, say like a manifest file, the first file will end up in the final jar file.
The different spring dependencies define several configurations which I had only part of in the final jar file. These are the files located in META-INF of the spring-…jar files:
- spring.factories
- spring.handlers
- spring.tools
- spring.schemas
Now all you have to do is, merge the contents into one file and make sure that is the file that ends up in the final jar file.
To do this I created an additional MetaData module, which is the first dependency in the assembly maven project. That way the files from the MetaData module get picked up.
See also http://blog.idm.fr/2009/09/maven-assembly-plugin-and-spring-namespace-handlers.html