Use of profiles in Spring

In this blog I would have detailed about creating a transaction proxy. Now lets say you need to hook this proxy only test cases.
i.e. stageUtils has to be stageUtilsProxy wherever it is used only for the test cases.

Here is where profile come into picture. You can read more about it here

Add a overridden-context-for-test-profile.xml with testcase profile

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>



<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans

         http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd" profile="testcase">



     <bean id="testStageUtils" scope="prototype" class="com.foo.infra.util.StageUtils" />



    <bean id="stageUtils"

class="org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionProxyFactoryBean">

<property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />

<property name="target" ref="testStageUtils" />

<property name="transactionAttributes">

<props>

<prop key="*">PROPAGATION_REQUIRES_NEW</prop>

</props>

</property>

</bean>



</beans>

Add this xml to the test-application-context.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>



<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans

         http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd

         http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx

         http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">



    <import resource="classpath:application-context.xml"/>

    <import resource="classpath:overridden-context-for-test-profile.xml"/>

</beans>

Annotate your BaseIntegrationTest class with @ActiveProfile annotation

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)

@ContextConfiguration(locations = {

        "classpath:test-application-context.xml"

        })

@TransactionConfiguration(transactionManager = "transactionManager", defaultRollback = true)

@Transactional

@ActiveProfiles(profiles="testcase")

public abstract class BaseIntegrationTest {