Question

I have several Spring based apps – web, web services

For my web services project, in my ws-config.xml file, I specify the location of the wsdl. This has been set to localhost in the past, but I now need to have this as a configurable value in a properties file if I can.

<ws:dynamic-wsdl id="ServiceDefinition"
    portTypeName="Test" locationUri="http://localhost/Test/webservice">
    <ws:xsd location="/WEB-INF/schemas/my-test.xsd" />
</ws:dynamic-wsdl>

I need to be able to reference the locationUri as a property, but I dont know how to do it?

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Check out the PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer. You can use this to specify properties in your Spring configs, and specify which properties sources to populate this property from. You can specify a hierarchy of sources, such that (say) you have a file of default properties, and then some overridden values in a per-user config.

Here’s a trivial example.