title: java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: classpath
body: <p>I am trying to import the xsd schema from local drive using schemalocation classpath in spring. I added the required file in the classpath and added the reference of this file with </p>
  
  <pre><code>15:10:19.336 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.xml.ResourceEntityResolver - Could not resolve XML entity [classpath:spring-social-facebook-1.1.xsd] against system root URL
  java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: classpath
      at java.net.URL.&lt;init&gt;(Unknown Source) ~[na:1.8.0_31]
      at java.net.URL.&lt;init&gt;(Unknown Source) ~[na:1.8.0_31]
      at java.net.URL.&lt;init&gt;(Unknown Source) ~[na:1.8.0_31]
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  <p>here is the header for my applicationContext.xml,</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;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"
      xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
      xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
      xmlns:mongo="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/mongo"     xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
      xmlns:social="http://www.springframework.org/schema/social"
      xmlns:facebook="http://www.springframework.org/schema/social/facebook"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-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/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-3.0.xsd
              http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
              http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
              http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/mongo http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/mongo/spring-mongo-1.7.xsd
              http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
              http://www.springframework.org/schema/social http://www.springframework.org/schema/social/spring-social.xsd
              http://www.springframework.org/schema/social/facebook classpath:spring-social-facebook-1.1.xsd"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using spring 4.1 with and spring-bean version 3.0.</p>