Question

I’ve got standart maven folder structure:

src/main/java  
src/main/resources  
src/test/java  
src/test/resources  

My appicationContext contains following:

<!-- load properties files -->
<context:property-placeholder location="classpath*:*.properties"/>

I have defined 2 hibernate.properties files – one for src/main/resources and one for src/ test/resources. I have expected that when I will run tests my test hibernate.properties will override production hibernate.properties. Instead of that both files are loaded and production version is used:

Loading properties file from file [D:\projects\video_crawler_v3\out\test\core\hibernate.properties]
Loading properties file from file [D:\projects\video_crawler_v3\out\production\core\hibernate.properties]  

How can I correctly setup my properties files? I’m using Intellij IDEA to compile and run tests

Answer 1

One of the options is Spring Profiles http://blog.springsource.com/2011/02/11/spring-framework-3-1-m1-released/

Put two “properties” versions in your context.xml, eg:

<beans>

   ... your beans

    <beans profile="prod">
        <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:/hibernate.properties" />
    </beans>

    <beans profile="test">
        <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:/test-hibernate.properties" />
    </beans>
</beans>

Activate required profile with -Dspring.profiles.active=test.

Note: use http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd