Question

In my application I have beans annotated with @Profile("prod") and @Profile("demo").
The first one, as you can guess :), is used on beans that connect to production DB and second one annotates beans that use some fake DB (HashMap or whatever)- to make development faster.

What I would like to have is default profile ("prod") that will be used always if it is not overridden by “something-else“.

Perfect would be to have in my web.xml:

<context-param>
     <param-name>spring.profiles.active</param-name>
     <param-value>prod</param-value>
</context-param>

and then override this with -Dspring.profiles.active="demo" so that I could do:

mvn jetty:run -Dspring.profiles.active="demo". 

But sadly this is not working. Any idea how could I achive that? Setting -Dspring.profiles.active="prod" on all my environments is not an option.

Answer 1

My experience is that using

@Profile("default")

the bean will only be added to the context if no other profile is identified. If you pass in a different profile, e.g. -Dspring.profiles.active="demo", this profile is ignored.