I have been working on a Spring based web application for a couple weeks. This application uses Hibernate Generic DAO’s with a JNDI template via spring to create the data source. This procedure works very well with DBUnit and Spring to test all of my data access objects in isolation and to get very high [...]

I have been using Hibernate JPA, with a Java Generics based data access layer for some time now. But each time I go to a new project, I find that I have to do quite a bit of rework just to integrate this component. So what I wanted to do, is find a way to [...]

I have been using the hibernate3-maven-plugin for some time with a good deal of success in unit testing my data access layers through dbunit. I always separate my data access into a separate module, called data-services, for many reasons. Mostly so I can separate my testing to just database integration testing, and not unit testing [...]

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So I ran into an issue today that has been detailed at http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?p=193052 in the Spring forums that at first glance, looked identical to my issue. But this was in fact not my issue. First off, when I was using acegi, I declared an applicationContext-test.xml that myTestNG would instanciate. I then would import my other [...]