Spring MVC test with 3 tiles in IntelliJ not working

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Spring MVC test with 3 tiles in IntelliJ not working

I have the following very simple test:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@WebAppConfiguration
@Transactional
@ContextConfiguration(SpringTestContext.WEB_APPLICATION)
public class SpringWebContextTest {

   @Autowired
   private WebApplicationContext webApplicationContext;

   @Test
   public void testSpringWebContextLoad() {
        Assert.assertNotNull("application context expected", this.webApplicationContext);
   }
}

Works in Eclipse and Maven without any problem, but not IntelliJ. IntelliJ was unable to load the spring application context because the scripts file cannot find certain definition definitions.

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver"            id="tilesViewResolver">
    <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesView"/>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesConfigurer" id="tilesConfigurer">
    <property name="definitions">
        <list>
                        <value>/WEB-INF/layouts/contentOnly/layouts.xml</value>
                        <value>/WEB-INF/layouts/backend/layouts.xml</value>
                        <value>/WEB-INF/layouts/frontend/layouts.xml</value>
                        <value>/WEB-INF/views/backend/**/views.xml</value>
                        <value>/WEB-INF/views/frontend/**/views.xml</value>
                        <value>/WEB-INF/views/exceptions/**/views.xml</value>
                        <value>/WEB-INF/client/views.xml</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>

This is the stacktrace:

    java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load ApplicationContext at org.springframework.test.context.CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContext (CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:99)
    at org.springframework.test.context.TestContext.getApplicationContext (TestContext.java:122)
    at org.springframework.test.context.web.ServletTestExecutionListener.setUpRequestContextIfNecessary (ServletTestExecutionListener.java:154)
    at org.springframework.test.context.web.ServletTestExecutionListener.prepareTestInstance (ServletTestExecutionListener.java:100)
    at org.springframework.test.context.TestContextManager.prepareTestInstance (TestContextManager.java:312)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.createTest (SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:211)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner $ 1.runReflectiveCall (SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:288)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run (ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.methodBlock (SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:284)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild (SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:231)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild (SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:88)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner $ 3.run (ParentRunner.java:238)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner $ 1.schedule (ParentRunner.java:63)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren (ParentRunner.java:236)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access $ 000 (ParentRunner.java:53)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner $ 2.evaluate (ParentRunner.java:229)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.evaluate (RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.java:61)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.evaluate (RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.java:71)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run (ParentRunner.java:309)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.run (SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:174)
    at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run (JUnitCore.java:160)
    at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs (JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:74)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart (JUnitStarter.java:211)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main (JUnitStarter.java:67)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0 (Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main (AppMain.java:134)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'tilesConfigurer' defined in class path resource [META-INF / spring / webmvc-config.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: no URL for ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/layouts/contentOnly/layouts.xml]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean (AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1512)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean (AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:521)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean (AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory $ 1.getObject (AbstractBeanFactory.java:296)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton (DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean (AbstractBeanFactory.java:293)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean (AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons (DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:628)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization (AbstractApplicationContext.java:932)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh (AbstractApplicationContext.java:479)
    at org.springframework.test.context.web.AbstractGenericWebContextLoader.loadContext (AbstractGenericWebContextLoader.java:128)
    at org.springframework.test.context.web.AbstractGenericWebContextLoader.loadContext (AbstractGenericWebContextLoader.java:60)
    at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.delegateLoading (AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.java:100)
    at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.loadContext (AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.java:248)
    at org.springframework.test.context.CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContextInternal (CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:64)
    at org.springframework.test.context.CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContext (CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:91)
    ... 28 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: no URL for ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/layouts/contentOnly/layouts.xml]
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.SpringWildcardServletTilesApplicationContext.getResources (SpringWildcardServletTilesApplicationContext.java:94)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesConfigurer $ SpringTilesContainerFactory.getSources (TilesConfigurer.java:286)
    at org.apache.tiles.factory.BasicTilesContainerFactory.createLocaleDefinitionDao (BasicTilesContainerFactory.java:182)
    at org.apache.tiles.factory.BasicTilesContainerFactory.createDefinitionsFactory (BasicTilesContainerFactory.java:137)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesConfigurer $ SpringTilesContainerFactory.createDefinitionsFactory (TilesConfigurer.java:331)
    at org.apache.tiles.factory.BasicTilesContainerFactory.createContainer (BasicTilesContainerFactory.java:86)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesConfigurer $ SpringTilesContainerFactory.createContainer (TilesConfigurer.java:277)
    at org.apache.tiles.startup.AbstractTilesInitializer.createContainer (AbstractTilesInitializer.java:114)
    at org.apache.tiles.startup.AbstractTilesInitializer.initialize (AbstractTilesInitializer.java:64)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesConfigurer.afterPropertiesSet (TilesConfigurer.java:252)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods (AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1571)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean (AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1509)
    ... 43 more
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/layouts/contentOnly/layouts.xml] cannot be resolved to URL because it does not exist
    at org.springframework.web.context.support.ServletContextResource.getURL (ServletContextResource.java:154)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.SpringWildcardServletTilesApplicationContext.getResources (SpringWildcardServletTilesApplicationContext.java:90)
    ... 54 more