title: Unable to load Spring ApplicationContext in JUnit test
body: <p>I have a junit test like so below: (running in eclipse 3.7 using maven)</p>
  
  <pre><code>@Configurable(autowire = Autowire.BY_NAME)
  @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
  @ContextConfiguration(locations = {"file:C:/ProgramData/Eclipse/Projects_3.7.1/project/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/mock-applicationContext.xml"})
  public class DaoTest {
      @Autowired
      Dao dao;
  
      @Test
      public void simpleTest() {
         org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull(dao);
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>when I attempt to execute the test (right click class name and run as Junit test), an exception is thrown which makes a reference to weblogic classes, which I don't really understand why that is happening.  </p>
  
  <p>I suspect that maybe the exception is thrown due to a misconfiguration in my pom.xml, but I'm not really sure.  The project deploys to weblogic without a problem.</p>
  
  <p>I've searched all over my mock-applicationContext.xml and referenced xml files (stored in src/main/webapp/WEB-INF), but there are no references to anything weblogic specific. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas on how to solve this problem or more debugging approaches to take?</p>
  
  <p>The stack trace is below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load ApplicationContext
      at org.springframework.test.context.TestContext.getApplicationContext(TestContext.java:157)
      at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.injectDependencies(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:109)
      at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.prepareTestInstance(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:75)
      at org.springframework.test.context.TestContextManager.prepareTestInstance(TestContextManager.java:321)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.createTest(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:211)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner$1.runReflectiveCall(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:288)
      at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:15)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.methodBlock(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:290)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:231)
      at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50)
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:193)
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:52)
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:191)
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:42)
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:184)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.java:61)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.java:71)
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:236)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.run(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:174)
      at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50)
      at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
      at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467)
      at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
      at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
      at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)
  Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected exception parsing XML document from URL [file:C:/ProgramData/Eclipse/Projects_3.7.1/ws_ObcWorkflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/mock-applicationContext.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: weblogic/utils/NestedException
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:412)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:334)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:174)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:209)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:180)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:243)
      at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractGenericContextLoader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractGenericContextLoader.java:205)
      at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractGenericContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractGenericContextLoader.java:100)
      at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractGenericContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractGenericContextLoader.java:1)
      at org.springframework.test.context.support.DelegatingSmartContextLoader.loadContext(DelegatingSmartContextLoader.java:228)
      at org.springframework.test.context.TestContext.loadApplicationContext(TestContext.java:124)
      at org.springframework.test.context.TestContext.getApplicationContext(TestContext.java:148)
      ... 24 more
  Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: weblogic/utils/NestedException
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:632)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:616)
      at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
      at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
      at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
      at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
      at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
      at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
      at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2389)
      at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2699)
      at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:326)
      at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
      at javax.xml.parsers.FactoryFinder.newInstance(FactoryFinder.java:147)
      at javax.xml.parsers.FactoryFinder.findJarServiceProvider(FactoryFinder.java:298)
      at javax.xml.parsers.FactoryFinder.find(FactoryFinder.java:223)
      at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(DocumentBuilderFactory.java:123)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultDocumentLoader.createDocumentBuilderFactory(DefaultDocumentLoader.java:89)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultDocumentLoader.loadDocument(DefaultDocumentLoader.java:70)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:388)
      ... 36 more
  Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: weblogic.utils.NestedException
      at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
      at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
      ... 60 more
  </code></pre>