What are Best Practice Recommendations for Java EE 7 Property File Configuration?

Question

Where does application configuration belong in modern Java EE applications? What best practice(s) recommendations do people have?

By application configuration, I mean se

Answer 1

There can be many possible solutions to your question depending upon everyone's experience. So, why not let's try some already discussed ideas. Please have a look at

1. Configure Java EE 6 for dev/QA/prod
2. How to configure Java EE application to apply different settings

Hope these two will give you some common understanding of how you can build the whole environment by using maven.