Just did a little refactoring to achieve this:
 * (1) applicationConfigs which are not likely to be changed in production are on the classpath
 * (2) applicationConfigs which are likely to be changed in production are in the WEB-INF

In the web.xml there is referred to as
 * (1) classpath:/applicationContext-persistence.xml
 * (2) /WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml 



Therefore you find the config of the Dao's now in

/geonetwork-persistence-ebrim/src/main/resources/applicationContext-persistence.xml

I did this to avoid a lot of duplicate application configs in the test and WEB-INF directories.