Can I inject properties from Maven (passwords defined in settings.xml) into my Spring container?

Question

I define passwords to servers via properties I define in my ~/.m2/settings.xml (could be anywhere, though, including pom.xml) for my deployment plugin. I\'d like to use the

Answer 1

Sure. Maven resource filtering is the way to go.

Here's a sample configuration (files matching *-context.xml will be filtered, others won't):

    
        
            src/main/resources
            true
            
                **/*-context.xml
            
        
        
            src/main/resources
            false
            
                **/*-context.xml
            
        
    

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A different approach would be to use the Properties Maven Plugin to write all project properties to a file and reference that file from Spring using the PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer mechanism.

Maven Configuration:

    
        
            org.codehaus.mojo
            properties-maven-plugin
            1.0-alpha-2
            
                
                    generate-test-resources
                    
                        write-project-properties
                    
                    
                        ${project.build.testOutputDirectory}/mavenproject.properties
                    
                
            
        
    

Spring configuration: