diff --git a/spring-ldap/src/itest/java/conf/rootContextSourceTestContext.xml b/spring-ldap/src/itest/java/conf/rootContextSourceTestContext.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<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-2.0.xsd">
+    <import resource="classpath:/conf/apacheDsContext.xml"/>
+    
+	<bean id="placeholderConfig"
+		class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
+		<property name="location" value="classpath:/conf/ldap.properties" />
+	</bean>
+    
+    <!-- note that this has no base set, since we want to get at the root entry -->
+	<bean id="contextSource" class="org.springframework.ldap.core.support.LdapContextSource" >
+		<property name="urls" value="${urls}" />
+		<property name="userDn" value="${userDn}" />
+		<property name="password" value="${password}" />
+		<property name="dirObjectFactory" value="org.springframework.ldap.core.support.DefaultDirObjectFactory" />
+	</bean>
+	
+	<bean id="ldapTemplate" class="org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate">
+		<constructor-arg ref="contextSource" />
+	</bean>
+	
+	<bean id="dataLoader" class="org.ddsteps.data.excel.CachingExcelDataLoader" />
+</beans>