Over the past few months I’ve spent a fair amount of time with the Spring 2.5 annotation-based integration test support and have by and large been impressed. The combination of the @ContextConfiguration and @Transactional annotations with Autowiring makes most integration tests easy to write and read. Add in the support for caching of an ApplicationContext once it’s been loaded once and the benefit to cost ratio looks much rosier for most integration tests.
However, I recently tried to write a regression test against the output of a view (in this case a Velocity template, but it’s a general issue) and came across an exception:
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