How do you maintain java webapps in different staging environments?

Question

You might have a set of properties that is used on the developer machine, which varies from developer to developer, another set for a staging environment, and yet another fo

Answer 1

Use different properties files and use ant replace filters which will do the replacement based on environment for which the build is done. See http://www.devrecipes.com/2009/08/14/environment-specific-configuration-for-java-applications/