How I can configure properties file right?

Question

I have maven project with several modules

this is part of database-config.xml in office-core module:

<bean id="propertyConfigurer"
      class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
      <property name="locations">
             <list>
                   <value>classpath:application.properties</value>
             </list>
      </property>
</bean>

I have application.properties files on several places:

c:\\projects\\office\\app\\office-core\\application.properties

c:\\projects\\office\\app\\office-core\\src\\main\\profiles\\application.properties

c:\\projects\\office\\app\\application.properties

In my opinion with this config in database-config.xml I should can use the properties file in my database-config.xml but I cant... Any help ?

Answer 1

You should put the application.properties file to src/main/resources directory to have it effectively on classpath. Then it should work.

Answer 2

I think it will not work because those paths are not part of your classpath. I suggest you to have some default configuration and to have configuration override per module, something like that:

<bean id="overrideConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyOverrideConfigurer">
    <property name="location" value="file:/SomeFolderInFileSystem/conf.properties"/>
    <property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="true"/>
</bean>