Spring @ContextConfiguration how to put the right location for the xml

Our Tests look like this (using Maven and Spring 3.1):

@ContextConfiguration(  {   "classpath:beans.xml",   "file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/applicationContext.xml",   "file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/dispatcher-data-servlet.xml",   "file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/dispatcher-servlet.xml"  })@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)public class CCustomerCtrlTest{  @Resource private ApplicationContext m_oApplicationContext;  @Autowired private RequestMappingHandlerAdapter m_oHandlerAdapter;  @Autowired private RequestMappingHandlerMapping m_oHandlerMapping;  private MockHttpServletRequest m_oRequest;  private MockHttpServletResponse m_oResp;  private CCustomerCtrl m_oCtrl;// more code ....}

That's the reason not to put configuration into webapp.

As far as I know, there are no good ways to access files in webapp folder from the unit tests. You can put your configuration into src/main/resources instead, so that you can access it from your unit tests (as described in the docs), as well as from the webapp (using classpath: prefix in contextConfigLocation).

See also:

• 4.7 Application contexts and Resource paths

This is a maven specific problem I think. Maven does not copy the files form /src/main/resources to the target-test folder. You will have to do this yourself by configuring the resources plugin, if you absolutely want to go this way.

An easier way is to instead put a test specific context definition in the /src/test/resources directory and load via:

@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "classpath:mycontext.xml" })