title: Reuse spring application context across junit test classes
body: <p>We've a bunch of JUnit test cases (Integration tests) and they are logically grouped into different test classes.</p>
  
  <p>We are able to load Spring application context once per test class and re-use it for all test cases in a JUnit test class as mentioned in <a href="http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/testing.html" rel="noreferrer">http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/testing.html</a></p>
  
  <p>However, we were just wondering if there is a way to load Spring application context only once for a bunch of JUnit test classes.</p>
  
  <p>FWIW, we use Spring 3.0.5, JUnit 4.5 and use Maven to build the project.</p>