Different files to be packaged in a Maven war project

Question

I have a war packaging Maven project, in which I have a Java properties files called myapp.properties. In this properties file, I store some parameters, for example, databas

Answer 1

i would try it with

pom.xml for your project (or parent pom)

        
          ...
        
            src/main/resources
            
                **/*.properties
            
            true
        
         ...
        

in your properties file(s) e.g.

db.url=${db.url}

and in your settings.xml (see http://maven.apache.org/settings.html#Profiles)

jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/testdb

depending on your development stage (local, build server, etc.) you can use different db.url values

this will not leave the db.url property blank, but each time you package the artifact you dont want it really to stay blank do you ?