Running JUnit test in Spring MVC throws: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: http://www.springf

As I suspected, the problem was in xerces libraries. If I'm not mistaken, Spring's dependencies contain xercesImpl dependency, but neither dependency with artifactId xmlParserAPIs nor xerces. I have been just hopelessly refactoring my pom.xml file and included the following dependencies and the rest was a matter of magic:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>xerces</groupId>
        <artifactId>xmlParserAPIs</artifactId>
        <version>2.6.2</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>xerces</groupId>
        <artifactId>xerces</artifactId>
        <version>2.4.0</version>
    </dependency>