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Up until now (July 2012) our integration test cases (mainly used for testing DAO classes) have extended a base class BaseTransactionalIntegrationTest, which in turn extends deprecated Spring classes.  This base class provided unit tests with a default Spring context and an automatic rollback capability.  Unit tests extending this base class were automatically database-aware, and any updates done in the unit test were automatically rolled back at the end of the test.

Spring has deprecated the class that BaseTransactionalIntegrationTest extends, and now recommends a different way of coding integration unit tests (see Spring Javadoc).  The following section describes changes we are making to move away from the deprecated classes.