Spring Maven unitTest applicationContext loading wrong file

Question

.I have a project that has a spring-config.xml file in src/main/webapp/WEB-INF and an applicationContext.xml file in src/test/resources. I also have an abstract test base class for my unit tests in src/test/java looks something like:

@ContextConfiguration(locations = {"classpath:/applicationContext.xml"})
public abstract class AbstractTestBase extends AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests {
     //Common code and fields
}

All my unit tests extends this AbstractTestBase which points to the context within the src/test/resources or should. The problem arises when running my unit tests it is pulling in the spring-config.xml file.

There are other projects my team is working on that have the same file structure, same app context setup, and run as intended, but even when I have each file in the project side by side I don't see where their file runs and this one doesn't.

I am new to spring so I don't know what it is I should be looking for.

Are there any situations where Spring or Maven would not take the app context I'm handing it given all files exist? Is there anything I might be missing?

EDIT: corrected to reflect that one file is a spring-config file.

Answer 1

"classpath:/applicationContext.xml" should look under src/test/resources. But it should be noticed that using that syntax will load the first one it finds and then stop as mentioned by '@chrylis'.

I once had similar problem.

You must have been using an IDE. There must have been applicationContext.xml file in your target/test-classes/ (in Eclipse IDE) in your project directory that is a copy of your xml file under src/main/webapp/WEB-INF or xml file like it.