Question

I have an interesting problem, I have two web services defined in a spring-conf.xml file and I have two test classes that live in the same package and every class has its own link to this spring-conf.xml file to call their particular webservice.
I am able to get beans from one of my test classes but from the other one I can’t and the code is equal in both classes.

In one I have this

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class WSFirstTest {

private ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
        "WEB-INF/spring-conf.xml");
private WSFirst ws = (WSFirst) context
        .getBean("serviceFirstDefault");

in the other one I have this

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class WSSecondTest {

private ApplicationContext context2 = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
        "WEB-INF/spring-conf.xml");
private WSSecond ws = (WSSecond) context2
        .getBean("serviceSecondDefault");

In the second one my program can’t find the spring-conf file, but in the other one is able.
What’s the problem?

PS Both wservices work fine when I call them from remote, only in local I have this problem.

The test’s error:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from class path resource [WEB-INF/spring-conf.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [WEB-INF/spring-conf.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist

Thank you for your advises.

Answer 1

As I know Spring interprets an application context path without starting “/” as a relative path from the same package in which the test class is defined and pathes with starting “/” as fully qualified class path locations (at least in the testing environment). Maybe you should try to use a starting “/”.

It turned out that different test run configurations caused the problem (see comments below).