'Spring.xml' IOException issues with migrated project from Eclipse to IntelliJ - eclipse

Question

I have pulled a Java project from TSF which another colleague created using Eclipse, however, whenever I open the project in IntelliJ it get the following runtime exception:
Exception in thread "main"
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException:
IOException parsing XML document from class path resource
[spring.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class
path resource [spring.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist
...
...
I have used Maven to download all the project dependencies which seem to have worked fine as I am not getting any compile time exceptions.
I have uploaded most of the project configuration settings to this imgur album, it should hopefully help.
Main.java
ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("spring.xml");
Spring.xml
<?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:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.3.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.3.xsd">
<bean id="ApplicationConfiguration" class="com.XXX.YYY.ZZZ.ApplicationConfiguration" />
<bean id="TableFactory" class="com.XXX.YYY.ZZZ.TableFactory">
<constructor-arg ref="ApplicationConfiguration" />
</bean>
<bean id="ItemFactory" class="com.XXX.YYY.ZZZ.datagen.ItemFactory"/>
<bean id="ItemWritersPool" class="com.XXX.YYY.ZZZ.ItemWritersPool">
<constructor-arg ref="ItemWriterFactory" />
<constructor-arg ref="ApplicationConfiguration" />
</bean>
<bean id="ItemWriterFactory" class="com.XXX.YYY.ZZZ.ItemWriterFactory">
<constructor-arg ref="ApplicationConfiguration" />
<constructor-arg ref="TableFactory" />
<constructor-arg ref="ItemFactory" />
</bean>
<bean id="ItemReadersPool" class="com.XXX.YYY.ZZZ.ItemReadersPool">
<constructor-arg ref="ItemReaderFactory" />
<constructor-arg ref="ApplicationConfiguration" />
</bean>
<bean id="ItemReaderFactory" class="com.XXX.YYY.ZZZ.ItemReaderFactory">
<constructor-arg ref="TableFactory" />
</bean>
</beans>
Project.iml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<module org.jetbrains.idea.maven.project.MavenProjectsManager.isMavenModule="true" type="JAVA_MODULE" version="4">
<component name="EclipseModuleManager">
<conelement value="org.eclipse.m2e.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER" />
<src_description expected_position="0">
<src_folder value="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src" expected_position="0" />
</src_description>
</component>
<component name="FacetManager">
<facet type="Spring" name="Spring">
<configuration>
<fileset id="fileset" name="Spring Application Context" removed="false">
<file>file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/spring.xml</file>
<file>jar://$MAVEN_REPOSITORY$/io/netty/netty/3.6.3.Final/netty-3.6.3.Final.jar!/org/jboss/netty/container/spring/beans.xml</file>
<file>jar://$MAVEN_REPOSITORY$/org/springframework/spring-context/3.2.3.RELEASE/spring-context-3.2.3.RELEASE.jar!/org/springframework/scheduling/annotation/AbstractAsyncConfiguration.class</file>
<file>jar://$MAVEN_REPOSITORY$/org/springframework/spring-context/3.2.3.RELEASE/spring-context-3.2.3.RELEASE.jar!/org/springframework/cache/annotation/AbstractCachingConfiguration.class</file>
<file>jar://$MAVEN_REPOSITORY$/org/springframework/spring-context/3.2.3.RELEASE/spring-context-3.2.3.RELEASE.jar!/org/springframework/context/annotation/LoadTimeWeavingConfiguration.class</file>
<file>jar://$MAVEN_REPOSITORY$/org/springframework/spring-context/3.2.3.RELEASE/spring-context-3.2.3.RELEASE.jar!/org/springframework/context/annotation/MBeanExportConfiguration.class</file>
<file>jar://$MAVEN_REPOSITORY$/org/springframework/spring-context/3.2.3.RELEASE/spring-context-3.2.3.RELEASE.jar!/org/springframework/scheduling/annotation/ProxyAsyncConfiguration.class</file>
<file>jar://$MAVEN_REPOSITORY$/org/springframework/spring-context/3.2.3.RELEASE/spring-context-3.2.3.RELEASE.jar!/org/springframework/cache/annotation/ProxyCachingConfiguration.class</file>
<file>jar://$MAVEN_REPOSITORY$/org/springframework/spring-context/3.2.3.RELEASE/spring-context-3.2.3.RELEASE.jar!/org/springframework/scheduling/annotation/SchedulingConfiguration.class</file>
<file>file://$MAVEN_REPOSITORY$/org/springframework/spring-context/3.2.3.RELEASE/spring-context-3.2.3.RELEASE.jar</file>
</fileset>
</configuration>
</facet>
</component>
<component name="NewModuleRootManager" LANGUAGE_LEVEL="JDK_1_7" inherit-compiler-output="false">
<output url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target/classes" />
<output-test url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target/test-classes" />
<exclude-output />
<content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$">
<sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src" isTestSource="false" />
<excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target" />
</content>
<orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
<orderEntry type="inheritedJdk" />
[-- some items manually removed --]
<orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.springframework:spring-core:3.2.3.RELEASE" level="project" />
<orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.springframework:spring-beans:3.2.3.RELEASE" level="project" />
<orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.springframework:spring-context:3.2.3.RELEASE" level="project" />
<orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.springframework:spring-aop:3.2.3.RELEASE" level="project" />
<orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.springframework:spring-expression:3.2.3.RELEASE" level="project" />
[-- some items manually removed --]
</component>
</module>
Any advise and/or suggestion will greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Everything seems ok in your config so I checked using a small project and it appears that the problem may come from the redundant namespaces you are using in your XML headers.
Try modifying the following this:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.3.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.3.xsd">
To result in something like this:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
If that does not work you can also tweak your .iml file by doing the following:
org.jetbrains.idea.maven.project.MavenProjectsManager.isMavenModule="true". You can test quickly by replacing true with false and let IntelliJ reload your project.
I don't know why IntelliJ ignore your spring.xml file, but if you use 2 separate directories for sources and resources, as Maven suggests, your problem should disappear.
You should also create the directory src/main/resources and place your spring.xml file there.
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Sometimes this can be a problem with the working dir. This blog post explains the problem and how to fix it.
IntelliJ differs from Eclipse in that it sets the working directory to project root which may not be the same as the top level directory of the module you are working on.
This can be fixed in the run configurations by setting the working directory to $MODULE_DIR$.
If this helps maybe set the working directory in Default JUnit run configuration as well as
and fixing all remaining run configurations.