spring property substitution for test and production

Question

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Answer 1

Put the property-placeholder configuration in an extra spring xml configuration file.

For example:

• applicationContext.xml -- for the normal configration without any property-placeholder configuration
• applicationContext-config.xml -- contains only a property-placeholder that load the production config file.
• testApplicationContext.xml. This file includes the applicationContext.xml and uses a property-placeholder with an other properties file.

In a Web App you could load all production spring context files with this pattern applicationContext*.xml.

For the tests you need only to load testApplicationContext.xml this will include the normal config, but with other properties.