Have the same issue here.

I was running spring 4.0.4 in Unit Test with Annotation ContextConfiguration.

If I run my application as normal (which is a web application, via mvn clean tomcat7:run), all working normal.

and if I run my test within Eclipse same error, EXCEPT if I run it as debug mode.

For the time being, I turn off my logging from debug to info. allow me to run the test without any error.

Hope this information help for debug.

Also using hinberate-4.3.5.Final and hibernate-annotation-4.0.4

Thanks