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Concrete implementation of AbstractGenericContextLoader that loads bean definitions from annotated classes.

See the Javadoc for org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration for a definition of annotated class.

Note: AnnotationConfigContextLoader supports annotated classes rather than the String-based resource locations defined by the legacy org.springframework.test.context.ContextLoader API. Thus, although AnnotationConfigContextLoader extends AbstractGenericContextLoader, AnnotationConfigContextLoader does not support any String-based methods defined by AbstractContextLoader or AbstractGenericContextLoader. Consequently, AnnotationConfigContextLoader should chiefly be considered a org.springframework.test.context.SmartContextLoader rather than a org.springframework.test.context.ContextLoader.

Author
Sam Brannen

Since
3.1

See Also
#processContextConfiguration(ContextConfigurationAttributes)#detectDefaultConfigurationClasses(Class)#loadBeanDefinitions(GenericApplicationContext, MergedContextConfiguration)GenericXmlContextLoaderGenericGroovyXmlContextLoader