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Asked: 2026-05-26T23:12:14+00:00

At the moment, the default I think, it copies to target/myproject/WEB-INF/classes so when deploying

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At the moment, the default I think, it copies to 

target/myproject/WEB-INF/classes

so when deploying it does not pick up the context.

Also, i want to reference a server specific config file database.properties, I want to put it in tomcat/conf and then reference it in applicationContext.xml, how can I do this ?

Also(2), I am under the impression that this is a fairly standard and decent way to set things up – please correct me if I am wrong.

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for the server specific config file I user this

<context:property-placeholder 
      location="file:${catalina.home}/conf/database.properties" 
      ignore-unresolvable="true"
 />
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  1. Editorial Team

    For your title question: Often in a .war maven module, you’ll put web related resources under src/main/webapp instead of src/main/resources. Then the maven plugin will pick them up automatically because it matches convention. So, move your applicationContext.xml to src/main/webapp/WEB-INF

    Another option is to configure the webResources as described in the documentation

    For the second question you can look at a PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer. You’ll just have to get the path correct.

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