diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/BusinessConfig.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/BusinessConfig.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fd258f7e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/BusinessConfig.java
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package org.springframework.samples.petclinic.config;
+
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Import;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportResource;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.PropertySource;
+import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.EnableTransactionManagement;
+
+@Configuration
+// import the dataSource definition 
+@ImportResource("classpath:spring/datasource-config.xml")
+@ComponentScan("org.springframework.samples.petclinic.service")
+// Configurer that replaces ${...} placeholders with values from a properties file
+// (in this case, JDBC-related settings for the JPA EntityManager definition below)
+@PropertySource("classpath:spring/data-access.properties")
+@EnableTransactionManagement
+@Import({JdbcConfig.class, SharedJpaConfig.class, JpaConfig.class, SpringDataJpaConfig.class})
+public class BusinessConfig {
+		
+
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/JdbcConfig.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/JdbcConfig.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..34f5786f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/JdbcConfig.java
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package org.springframework.samples.petclinic.config;
+
+import javax.sql.DataSource;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Profile;
+import org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate;
+import org.springframework.jdbc.core.namedparam.NamedParameterJdbcTemplate;
+import org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager;
+
+@Configuration
+@Profile("jdbc")
+@ComponentScan("org.springframework.samples.petclinic.repository.jdbc")
+public class JdbcConfig {
+	
+	@Autowired
+	private DataSource dataSource;
+
+	
+    @Bean
+    public DataSourceTransactionManager dataSourceTransactionManager() {
+    	return new DataSourceTransactionManager(dataSource);
+    }
+    
+    @Bean(name="transactionManager")
+    public JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate() {
+    	return new JdbcTemplate(dataSource);
+    }
+    
+    @Bean
+
+    public NamedParameterJdbcTemplate namedParameterJdbcTemplate() {
+    	return new NamedParameterJdbcTemplate(dataSource);
+    }
+
+
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/JpaConfig.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/JpaConfig.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a8c18e74a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/JpaConfig.java
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package org.springframework.samples.petclinic.config;
+
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Profile;
+
+@Configuration
+@Profile("jpa")
+@ComponentScan("org.springframework.samples.petclinic.repository.jpa")
+public class JpaConfig {
+
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/RootApplicationContextConfig.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/RootApplicationContextConfig.java
index 9a55d3605..254b3209c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/RootApplicationContextConfig.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/RootApplicationContextConfig.java
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 package org.springframework.samples.petclinic.config;
 
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Import;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportResource;
 
 @Configuration
-@ImportResource({"classpath:spring/business-config.xml", "classpath:spring/tools-config.xml"})
+@Import(BusinessConfig.class)
+@ImportResource("classpath:spring/tools-config.xml")
 public class RootApplicationContextConfig {
 
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/SharedJpaConfig.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/SharedJpaConfig.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0d454c977
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/SharedJpaConfig.java
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+package org.springframework.samples.petclinic.config;
+
+import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;
+import javax.sql.DataSource;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Profile;
+import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;
+import org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor;
+import org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager;
+import org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaVendorAdapter;
+import org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean;
+import org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.Database;
+import org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter;
+
+@Configuration
+@Profile({"jpa", "spring-data-jpa"})
+public class SharedJpaConfig {
+	
+    @Autowired
+    private Environment        env;
+    
+	@Autowired
+	private DataSource dataSource;
+	
+    @Bean
+    public EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory() {
+        LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean em = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
+        em.setDataSource(dataSource);
+        // gDickens: BOTH Persistence Unit and Packages to Scan are NOT compatible, persistenceUnit will win
+        em.setPersistenceUnitName("petclinic");
+        em.setPackagesToScan("org.springframework.samples.petclinic");
+        em.setJpaVendorAdapter(jpaVendorAdaper());
+        em.afterPropertiesSet();
+        return em.getObject();
+    }
+    
+    @Bean
+    public JpaVendorAdapter jpaVendorAdaper() {
+        HibernateJpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
+        // the 'database' parameter refers to the database dialect being used.
+    	// By default, Hibernate will use a 'HSQL' dialect because 'jpa.database' has been set to 'HSQL'
+    	// inside file spring/data-access.properties
+        vendorAdapter.setDatabase(env.getProperty("jpa.database", Database.class));
+        vendorAdapter.setShowSql(env.getProperty("jpa.showSql", Boolean.class));
+        return vendorAdapter;
+    }
+    
+    @Bean(name="transactionManager")
+    public JpaTransactionManager jpaTransactionManager() {
+        JpaTransactionManager jpaTransactionManager = new JpaTransactionManager();
+        jpaTransactionManager.setEntityManagerFactory(entityManagerFactory());
+        return jpaTransactionManager;
+    }
+    
+    @Bean
+    public PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor persistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor() {
+    	return new PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor();
+    }
+
+
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/SpringDataJpaConfig.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/SpringDataJpaConfig.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c10b99bcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/SpringDataJpaConfig.java
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package org.springframework.samples.petclinic.config;
+
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Profile;
+import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.config.EnableJpaRepositories;
+
+@Configuration
+@Profile("spring-data-jpa")
+@EnableJpaRepositories("org.springframework.samples.petclinic.repository.springdatajpa")
+public class SpringDataJpaConfig {
+
+}
diff --git a/src/main/resources/spring/business-config.xml b/src/main/resources/spring/business-config.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 99cf4c1d3..000000000
--- a/src/main/resources/spring/business-config.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-    Repository and Service layers
--->
-<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
-	xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
- 
-    <!-- ========================= RESOURCE DEFINITIONS ========================= -->
-
-    <!-- import the dataSource definition -->
-    <import resource="datasource-config.xml"/>
-
-    <context:component-scan
-            base-package="org.springframework.samples.petclinic.service"/>
-
-    <!-- Configurer that replaces ${...} placeholders with values from a properties file -->
-    <!-- (in this case, JDBC-related settings for the JPA EntityManager definition below) -->
-    <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:spring/data-access.properties" system-properties-mode="OVERRIDE"/>
-
-     <!-- enables scanning for @Transactional annotations -->
-    <tx:annotation-driven />
- 
-	
-	<!-- ==================		 3 Profiles to choose from 			=================== 
-									- jdbc (uses Spring" JdbcTemplate)
-									- jpa
-									- spring-data-jpa	
-		  =============================================================================-->
-	
-    <beans profile="jpa,spring-data-jpa">
-        <!-- JPA EntityManagerFactory -->
-        <bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean"
-              p:dataSource-ref="dataSource">
-            <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
-                <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter"
-                      p:database="${jpa.database}" p:showSql="${jpa.showSql}"/>
-                <!-- the 'database' parameter refers to the database dialect being used.
-                	By default, Hibernate will use a 'HSQL' dialect because 'jpa.database' has been set to 'HSQL'
-                	inside file spring/data-access.properties
-                
-                 -->
-            </property>
-            <!-- gDickens: BOTH Persistence Unit and Packages to Scan are NOT compatible, persistenceUnit will win -->
-            <property name="persistenceUnitName" value="petclinic"/>
-            <property name="packagesToScan" value="org.springframework.samples.petclinic"/>
-        </bean>
-
-        <!-- Transaction manager for a single JPA EntityManagerFactory (alternative to JTA) -->
-        <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager"
-              p:entityManagerFactory-ref="entityManagerFactory"/>
-
-
-        <!--
-            Post-processor to perform exception translation on @Repository classes (from native
-            exceptions such as JPA PersistenceExceptions to Spring's DataAccessException hierarchy).
-        -->
-        <bean class="org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor"/>
-
-    </beans>
-
-    <beans profile="jdbc">
-        <!-- Transaction manager for a single JDBC DataSource (alternative to JTA) -->
-        <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager"
-              p:dataSource-ref="dataSource"/>
-
-        <bean id="jdbcTemplate" class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate">
-            <constructor-arg ref="dataSource"/>
-        </bean>
-
-        <bean id="namedParameterJdbcTemplate"
-              class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.namedparam.NamedParameterJdbcTemplate">
-            <constructor-arg ref="dataSource"/>
-        </bean>
-
-        <context:component-scan base-package="org.springframework.samples.petclinic.repository.jdbc"/>
-    </beans>
-
-    <beans profile="jpa">
-        <!--
-            Loads JPA beans
-            Will automatically be transactional due to @Transactional.
-            EntityManager will be auto-injected due to @PersistenceContext.
-            PersistenceExceptions will be auto-translated due to @Repository.
-        -->
-        <context:component-scan base-package="org.springframework.samples.petclinic.repository.jpa"/>
-    </beans>
-
-    <beans profile="spring-data-jpa">
-        <jpa:repositories base-package="org.springframework.samples.petclinic.repository.springdatajpa"/>
-    </beans>
-</beans>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/ClinicServiceJdbcTests.java b/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/ClinicServiceJdbcTests.java
index 49e57ea40..1543596b0 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/ClinicServiceJdbcTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/ClinicServiceJdbcTests.java
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 package org.springframework.samples.petclinic.service;
 
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.samples.petclinic.config.BusinessConfig;
 import org.springframework.test.context.ActiveProfiles;
 import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
 import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
  * @author Thomas Risberg
  * @author Michael Isvy
  */
-@ContextConfiguration(locations = {"classpath:spring/business-config.xml"})
+@ContextConfiguration(classes = BusinessConfig.class)
 @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
 @ActiveProfiles("jdbc")
 public class ClinicServiceJdbcTests extends AbstractClinicServiceTests {
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/ClinicServiceJpaTests.java b/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/ClinicServiceJpaTests.java
index e024f21fd..2f5c9e3fc 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/ClinicServiceJpaTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/ClinicServiceJpaTests.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 package org.springframework.samples.petclinic.service;
 
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.samples.petclinic.config.BusinessConfig;
 import org.springframework.test.context.ActiveProfiles;
 import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
 import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
  * @author Michael Isvy
  */
 
-@ContextConfiguration(locations = {"classpath:spring/business-config.xml"})
+@ContextConfiguration(classes = BusinessConfig.class)
 @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
 @ActiveProfiles("jpa")
 public class ClinicServiceJpaTests extends AbstractClinicServiceTests {
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/ClinicServiceSpringDataJpaTests.java b/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/ClinicServiceSpringDataJpaTests.java
index e01dda551..2cbd73c9e 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/ClinicServiceSpringDataJpaTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/ClinicServiceSpringDataJpaTests.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 package org.springframework.samples.petclinic.service;
 
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.samples.petclinic.config.BusinessConfig;
 import org.springframework.test.context.ActiveProfiles;
 import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
 import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
@@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
  * @author Michael Isvy
  */
 
-@ContextConfiguration(locations = {"classpath:spring/business-config.xml"})
+@ContextConfiguration(classes = BusinessConfig.class)
 @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
 @ActiveProfiles("spring-data-jpa")
 public class ClinicServiceSpringDataJpaTests extends AbstractClinicServiceTests {
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/web/VisitsViewTests-config.xml b/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/web/VisitsViewTests-config.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8458ba2ec..000000000
--- a/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/web/VisitsViewTests-config.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-	- DispatcherServlet application context for PetClinic's web tier.
--->
-<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">
-
-    <import resource="classpath:spring/business-config.xml"/>
-    <import resource="classpath:spring/mvc-core-config.xml"/>
-
-</beans>
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/web/VisitsViewTests.java b/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/web/VisitsViewTests.java
index ace89a019..2f1e17fa3 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/web/VisitsViewTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/web/VisitsViewTests.java
@@ -28,8 +28,10 @@ import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
+import org.springframework.samples.petclinic.config.BusinessConfig;
 import org.springframework.test.context.ActiveProfiles;
 import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextHierarchy;
 import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
 import org.springframework.test.context.web.WebAppConfiguration;
 import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.MockMvc;
@@ -44,7 +46,9 @@ import org.springframework.web.context.WebApplicationContext;
  */
 @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
 @WebAppConfiguration
-@ContextConfiguration("VisitsViewTests-config.xml")
+@ContextHierarchy({ 
+    @ContextConfiguration(classes = BusinessConfig.class),
+    @ContextConfiguration(locations = "classpath:spring/mvc-core-config.xml")})
 @ActiveProfiles("jdbc")
 public class VisitsViewTests {