The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element

Spring Mvc defects

Issue : The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'mvc:annotation-driven'

Solution : In your spring context xml mvc namespace url should match url in schemaLocation. Something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

       xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"

       xsi:schemaLocation="

         http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc

         http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">

This is a standard XML namespace declaration. The namespace url is sort of an unique id, which is then mapped to the actual schema location in xsi:schemaLocation.