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Maybe ContextTestCase--in following post--would be helpful for your integration testing needs?

http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=10273=

For my application, the context files are under /WEB-INF, not in the classes directory.

Try moving your context files and change contextConfigLocation in web.xml.


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Are you open to a solution other than using getResourceAsSteam()?

Maybe Spring's Resource interface will serve your purposes. It is a clean/elegant solution. Here is how I found out about it.
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I don't know about best way, but one way should be:

HttpSessionListener > HttpSessionEvent > HttpSession > ServletContext

then

myServletContext.getAttribute( ...

To do RequestDispatcher.forward() you want to use:
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView

To Spring Team FWIW:
There is a RedirectView, so why isn't there a ForwardView and...

You can't do what you want with org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityView. This Spring class is based on org.apache.velocity.servlet.VelocityServlet, which comes with the Velocity...

The sample applications, including petclinic, are in the binary distribution under the /samples directory.

I don't know anything about Maven. Does Maven build run via Ant?

If so, and even if not, I believe the problem is that each test class is getting forked into a new JVM.

If Ant is involved,...

You are saying following does not work?

<junit fork="yes" forkmode="once">
<test fork="no" ....
etc....

Where all the tests are defined in same way.

If you can get all the tests to...

Below is the latest version of something I posted a little while ago.

http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=9902&highlight=

You need to call initialize() in setup of each class...

First, you can't prevent them from using new or a factory getInstance directly. Don't worry about it, because you can easily refactor a bean to instead receive what objects it needs.

Second, why...

About a month ago--I don't remember where--someone provided a JUnit TestCase implementation that loaded a Spring ApplicationContext then set instance variables via java reflection. I liked the...

I suggest you put persistence related bean definitions in separate xml file like contextPersistence.xml. In web.xml, include all xml files pertinent to your environment in a <context-param> with...

I may have misunderstood what your intent is but I am assuming that you want to view the code base of Spring in Eclipse IDE. I see the build--of Spring framework--as being strictly an ANT issue and...

kdonald,

I tried what you indicated and it worked! I like it. (It hadn't occured to me that Spring would resolve a string <value> in <property> element to the type of the setter method, i.e....

I figured out how to do what I wanted, but in a cleaner way. I was originally creating a Resource bean and then passing it as property to a View bean. Now I just get a reference to the desired...

I want to get to a file that is under /WEB-INF of my web application, but by means of a relative reference.

Using FileSystemResource, I can get to a file by providing a complete path like bean...