Question

My war file has 3 properties files: test.properties, dev.properties and prod.properties.

My application context has the following

<bean id="local" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
      <property name="locations">
        <list><value>classpath:${env}.properties</value></list>
      </property>
      <property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="false" />
      <property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="false" />
      <property name="searchSystemEnvironment" value="true" />
  </bean>

I have done the following

1. set the following in tomcat7/conf/web.xml

   <env-entry>
   <env-entry-name>env</env-entry-name>
   <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
   <env-entry-value>dev</env-entry-value>
   

2. set the following in tomcat7/conf/context.xml

   <Environment name="env" value="dev" type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>
   

3. set CATALINA_OPTS and JAVA_OPTS

   echo $CATALINA_OPTS  =   -Denv=dev
   echo $JAVA_OPTS  =       -Denv=dev
   

I start tomcat using the command, sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat7 start

This does not load any of my variables. I still get

Invalid bean definition with name 'local' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Could not resolve placeholder 'env'

What am I doing wrong??

Answer 1

I was able to solve the issue by setting the variables in catalina.properties in tomcat7/conf

env = dev