Declare beans for all profiles except one, using Spring profiles (XML)

Question

I'd like to know, using Spring XML profiles, if it is possible to declare Spring beans for all profiles, except the dev profile.

My usecase is that I would like to declare my JDBC datasource as being JNDI provided for profile "dev", while it is created for other profiles.

I'd like to have something like:

<beans profile="dev" >
    ... DataSource JNDI ...
</beans>
<beans profile="!dev" >
    ... DataSource creation ...
</beans>

Is there a solution? Or the only way is to do:

<beans profile="dev" >
    ... DataSource JNDI ...
</beans>
<beans profile="integration,valid,preprod,prod" >
    ... DataSource creation ...
</beans>

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use ! , for spring version higher than Spring 3.2 M1.

So this way is ok:

<beans profile="!dev" >
    ... DataSource creation ...
</beans>

Answer 2

A simpler way would be like this:

General datasource creation for any profile:

<bean name="datasource" ...>

then specific for dev:

<beans profile="dev" >
   <bean name="datasource" ...>
</beans>