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 [...]

NOTE: AVOID SPACES IN DIRECTORY NAMES AT ALL COST! It is mandatory that your JDK be installed in a directory that does NOT have spaces. The default installer uses “C:\Program Files\Java\**” and I just put mine in “c:\Java\**” instead. Local Repository Your “c:\Documents and Settings\[userId]\.m2\settings.xml” is the location where you can override various project properties. [...]