Multiple Spring PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer at the same time

Question

I have two projects, one of them (Services) includes the second one (Core). I\'ve defined this PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer below within Core project:

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Answer 1

You can use multiple at the same time BUT you have to have different names/ids for each else one will override the other. Next to that you need to either use different placeholders (${...}) for each or configure it to ignore unresolved placeholders.

Instead of using the class definition I strongly suggest yo use the namespace ( which saves you some xml. (It will generate beans with unique names so you can have multiple at the same time, make sure to set the ignore-unresolvable attribute to true.

As a last resort you could implement your a BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessor which detects all PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer instances, merges them into one and move all the locations/resources to the merged one. That way you don't have to worry about multiple different placeholders or unresolvable properties.