Question

I need to include some stuff in my final war:

I have a situation with multi profiles files in the src/main/resources:

 configuration.properties (local)
 configuration.dev.properties
 configuration.production.properties

so, I would like that when for example ‘-Pproduction’ is executed the file configuration.production.properties is copied in the war at the dir WEB-INF/classes and renamed as ‘configuration.properties’. How can I get that?

Thanks

Randomize

Answer 1

I would not do it like this.

Instead, I would have a single configuration.properties, holding placeholders for the values that differ depending on the profile :

numberOfThreads=${config.numberOfThreads} # depends on the profile
foo=bar #doesnt depend on the profile

And then use the filtering capabilities of the resources plugin in order to replace the placeholder with actual values fetched from the profile:

filter-dev.properties :
    config.numberOfThreads=2
filter-prod.properties :
    config.numberOfThreads=16

And now in your pom :

<profile>
  <id>dev</id>
  <properties>
    <env>dev</env>
  </properties>
</profile>
<profile>
  <id>prod</id>
  <properties>
    <env>prod</env>
  </properties>
</profile>

<filters>
  <filter>src/main/filters/filter-${env}.properties</filter>
</filters>

<resources>
  <resource>
    <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
    <filtering>true</filtering>
  </resource>
</resources>