The error is saying that there is no MVC HandlerAdaptor bean present in your context. This is set-up by Spring MVC. Does your applicationContextTest.xml include a Spring MVC initialization?

e.g. I use the mvc:annotation-driven element to do this.

org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No unique bean of type [org.springframework.web.servlet.HandlerAdapter] is defined: expected single bean but found 0:

I’m using it against my own controller and used @Autowired instead of @Inject on my applicationContext. I have changed my context configuration to:

@ContextConfiguration(locations = { “classpath:applicationContextTest.xml” })

Do I need to explicitly define a handleAdapter in my application context?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Not sure why you’re getting a ClassCastException. Which line (equivalent) is it happening on? Are you using Spring 3? I’ve refined by integration testing strategy a little since this post. For instance I discovered today that it won’t won’t with the @PathVariable parameter annotation. I’ll hopefully find time to post my latest ideas soon.

Which is possibly cleaner then flush() ( degrades performance ) and if you dont want to make the method Transactional but instead throw an exception (because presumably you want the caller to handle transactions)