Spring beans redefinition in unit test environment

Question

We are using Spring for my application purposes, and Spring Testing framework for unit tests. We have a small problem though: the application code loads a Spring application

Answer 1

You can use the import feature in your test app context to load in the prod beans and override the ones you want. For example, my prod data source is usually acquired via JNDI lookup, but when I test I use a DriverManager data source so I don't have to start the app server to test.