Add external properties file packaging war Spring Boot

Question

I have .properties file with secured information such as database password ,username and so on, this file locate outside of src/resources folder. Is it possible to add this file to war file on packaging step

Like:

mvn clean package -DAddResource=/home/user/secured.properties

Answer 1

Two possible solutuions: 1) As I use jenkins , it's possible to use File Plugin , which dynamically add new file to your project 2) Second one , and this is the worst one , you can add spring property location directly to Tomcat in setenv.sh

JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dspring.config.location=/home/site/site/site.properties"

The main disadvantage is this file will be the same for all wars you deploy inside Tomcat