Question

There is a “hibernate.properties” file in classpath which is shared by some tools, so I can’t remove it.

But I want to create a “hibernate.test.properties” for testing, whose content is different from “hibernate.properties”.

Then I configure the spring:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd  
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop  
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.test" />

    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"
        proxy-target-class="true" />

    <bean
        class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="location">
            <value>classpath:hibernate.test.properties</value>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="dataSource"
        class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
        <property name="driverClassName" value="${hibernate.connection.driver_class}" />
        <property name="url" value="${hibernate.connection.url}" />
        <property name="username" value="${hibernate.connection.username}" />
        <property name="password" value="${hibernate.connection.password}" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="hibernateProps"
        class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean">
        <property name="properties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">${hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">${hibernate.show_sql}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.minPoolSize">${hibernate.c3p0.minPoolSize}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.maxPoolSize">${hibernate.c3p0.maxPoolSize}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.idleTestPeriod">${hibernate.c3p0.idleTestPeriod}s</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.timeout">${hibernate.c3p0.timeout}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.max_statement">${hibernate.c3p0.max_statement}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.testConnectionOnCheckout">${hibernate.c3p0.testConnectionOnCheckout}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.preferredTestQuery">${hibernate.c3p0.preferredTestQuery}</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="transactionManager"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="sessionFactory"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <property name="hibernateProperties" ref="hibernateProps" />
        <property name="packagesToScan" value="com.test.pojo" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="jdbcTemplate" class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="hibernateTemplate" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate">
        <constructor-arg ref="sessionFactory" />
    </bean>

</beans>

But I found although I specified new properties in this file, hibernate will still read the properties from “hibernate.properties” and override them. So I always get a wrong connection.

Is there any way to fix it?

Answer 1

I can give couple of options .

1. In hibernate.test.properties, try changing the property names.

2. Inject separate property file to hibernateproperties

   <property name="hibernateProperties">
          <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean.PropertiesFactoryBean">
          <property name="location" value="classpath:myHibernate.properties"/>
      </bean>
   </property>