Spring support JUnit quite well on that:
With the RunWith
and ContextConfiguration
annotation, things look very intuitive
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = "classpath:dao-context.xml")
This test will be able to run both in Eclipse & Maven in correctly. I wonder if there is similar stuff for TestNG. I'm considering moving to this "Next Generation" Framework but I didn't find a match for testing with Spring.