diff --git a/spring-integration-twitter/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/twitter/config/TestSendingMessageHandlerParser-context.xml b/spring-integration-twitter/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/twitter/config/TestSendingMessageHandlerParser-context.xml
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+++ b/spring-integration-twitter/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/twitter/config/TestSendingMessageHandlerParser-context.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans:beans
+        xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration"
+        xmlns:beans="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:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
+        xmlns:tool="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool"
+        xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang"
+        xmlns:twitter="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/twitter"
+        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/spring-integration-2.0.xsd
+					 	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
+                        http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool/spring-tool-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/twitter http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/twitter/spring-integration-twitter.xsd">
+
+
+	<beans:bean id="tc" class="org.springframework.integration.twitter.config.TestSendingMessageHandlerParserTests.MockOathConfigurationFactoryBean"/>
+	
+	<channel id="inbound_mentions"/>
+	
+   <channel id="inputChannel"/>
+
+	<twitter:outbound-dm-channel-adapter twitter-connection="tc" channel="inputChannel"/>
+	
+	<twitter:outbound-update-channel-adapter twitter-connection="tc" channel="inputChannel"/>
+   
+</beans:beans>
+
+
diff --git a/spring-integration-twitter/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/twitter/config/TestSendingMessageHandlerParserTests.java b/spring-integration-twitter/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/twitter/config/TestSendingMessageHandlerParserTests.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2010 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.springframework.integration.twitter.config;
+
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.FactoryBean;
+import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.integration.twitter.oauth.OAuthConfiguration;
+
+import twitter4j.Twitter;
+
+/**
+ * @author Oleg Zhurakousky
+ *
+ */
+public class TestSendingMessageHandlerParserTests {
+
+	@Test
+	public void testSendingMessageHandlerSuccessfullBootstrap(){
+		new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("TestSendingMessageHandlerParser-context.xml", this.getClass());
+		// the fact that no exception was thrown satisfies this test	
+	}
+	
+	public static class MockOathConfigurationFactoryBean implements FactoryBean<OAuthConfiguration>{
+
+		@Override
+		public OAuthConfiguration getObject() throws Exception {
+			OAuthConfiguration config = mock(OAuthConfiguration.class);
+			Twitter twitter = mock(Twitter.class);
+			when(config.getTwitter()).thenReturn(twitter);
+			return config;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public Class<?> getObjectType() {
+			return OAuthConfiguration.class;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public boolean isSingleton() {
+			return true;
+		}	
+	}
+}