Question

The Test class of my application is extending “AbstractSingleSpringContextTests”.

We are loading all the Spring config files by overriding the “getConfigLocations” method.

All Spring files that I am loading are bundled inside JAR files (which are provided by other teams).

Hence the startup time for the integration tests is quite high. I am unable to set the default lazy load parameter to false since the spring config files are in JAR files.

1. Is there way to programmatically set lazy load to true while running
   the tests?
2. Is there a way to programmatically disallow certain beans defined in application-context.xml from loading?

Answer 1

Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

I have able to lazily load by following the steps specified in this link – http://batmat.net/blog/post/2008/01/13/How-to-load-a-XML-Spring-context-lazily-by-default