Spring Integration - Externalizing JDBC Queries

Question

Is there a simple way to externalize big sql queries from jdbc outbound gateways, instead of inlining it? The reason being that we\'re having to many big queries to make, an

Answer 1

Yes, you can put them in a properties file, and use properties placeholders ${...} to resolve them, or you can use SpEL...

"#{myQueryBean.queryOne}"

where myQueryBean is a that's an instance of a class with a method...

public String getQueryOne() {...}

or a static constant on a class...

"#{T(foo.Queries).QUERY_ONE}"

public static final String QUERY_ONE = "...";