Can I negate (!) a collection of spring profiles?

Question

Is it possible to configure a bean in such a way that it wont be used by a group of profiles? Currently I can do this (I believe):

@Profile(\"!dev, !qa, !loc         


        

Answer 1

You can simply mark RealImp class with @Profile("Production") (or your own profile name) so that you don't need to specify all other profiles.

Could I just annotate one of them, and stick a @Primary annotation on the other instead?

Yes, you can use @Primary as well for RealImp class, but ensure that you are using the same concept consistently across the whole project i.e., in other words, if you mark some of the bean real implementation classes (meant for actual production environment) as @Profile("Production") and some of them with @Primary then the project will become in a messy state.