title: Spring @ContextConfiguration how to put the right location for the xml
body: <p>In our project we are writting a test to check if the controller returns the right modelview</p>
  
  <pre><code>@Test
      public void controllerReturnsModelToOverzichtpage()
      {
          ModelAndView modelView = new ModelAndView();
          KlasoverzichtController controller = new KlasoverzichtController();
          modelView = controller.showOverzicht();
  
          assertEquals("Klasoverzichtcontroller returns the wrong view ", modelView.getViewName(), "overzicht");
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This returns the exception null.</p>
  
  <p>We are now configuring the @contextconfiguration but we don't know how to load the right xml who is located at src\main\webapp\root\WEB-INF\root-context.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
  @ContextConfiguration
  public class TestOverzichtSenario{
  ....
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/htmlsingle/spring-framework-reference.html#testcontext-ctx-management" rel="noreferrer" title="Spring @context... ">This documentation isn't clear enough to understand</a></p>
  
  <p>Any suggestion on how to make sure the contextannotation loads the right xml?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit v2</strong></p>
  
  <p>I copied the configuration .xml files from the webINF folder to </p>
  
  <pre><code>src\main\resources\be\..a bunch of folders..\configuration\*.xml 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and changed the web.xml in webinf to </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;param-name&gt;contextConfigLocation&lt;/param-name&gt;
  &lt;param-value&gt;
              classpath*:configuration/root-context.xml
              classpath*:configuration/applicationContext-security.xml
          &lt;/param-value&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and now get the error  </p>
  
  <pre><code>org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml]
      org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:341)
      org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)
      org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143)
      org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178)
      org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:149)
      org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:124)
      org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:93)
      org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:130)
      org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:467)
      org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:397)
      org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:442)
      org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:458)
      org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:339)
      org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:306)
      org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:127)
      javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212)
      com.springsource.insight.collection.tcserver.request.HttpRequestOperationCollectionValve.invoke(HttpRequestOperationCollectionValve.java:80)
      org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
      org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293)
      org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:849)
      org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
      org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:379)
      java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
      java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
      java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
  </code></pre>