IOException parsing XML document from class path resource

Ok I'm currently trying mavenise a project. However my project fails to find the xml file containing the some beans. combined2.xml

I have it defined as:

    public RepeatingGrpPoC() {
    appContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
            new String[] { "src/main/java/resources/combined2.xml",});
    c = 0;    
}

However for a reason unknown to me I constantly get the error.

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from class path resource [src/main/java/resources/combined2.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [src/main/java/resources/combined2.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:341) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:149) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:212) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:126) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:92) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:130) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:465) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:395) at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139) at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:93) at metadataPoC.RepeatingGrpPoC.(RepeatingGrpPoC.java:34) at metadataPoC.Main.main(Main.java:22) Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [src/main/java/resources/combined2.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist at org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource.getInputStream(ClassPathResource.java:141) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:328) ... 14 more

Where else would the program be looking for this file since I've given it the relative path?

It is trying to load this file from the classpath and cannot find it. Try specifying just "combined2.xml" instead of "src/main/java/resources/combined2.xml" and make sure that src/main/java/resources is on your classpath.

By the way, in Maven, the standard directory for resources is src/main/resources, so I suggest you put this file there.