Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The prefix "util" for element "util:list" is not bound.

If you get the following error in while executing a Spring program.Following are the steps to resolve it.

Add the namespaces (the ones that are highlighted below in your spring configuration file)

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"   xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/util
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.5.xsd">

This will resolve the issue