Refresh PropertyPlaceholder data at runtime

[rebornspirt]

Is it possible to reload / refresh the property files that are configured in the PropertyPlaceholder or is it necessary to refresh the complete application context (using ConfigurableApplicationContext) instead?

Grtz

Maarten

[Colin Sampaleanu]

You need to refresh the whole context, since the replacement happens at the time of the context load/reload. The configurer is a bean factory postprocesor, which runs at that time.

[pietercoucke]

I think you will need to refresh the complete application context, because the properties from the PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer are set in the beans in the configuration. After that a lot of initialization can happen (eg. afterPropertiesSet() call in InitializingBean, which may set other properties in the beans).
Just reloading the PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer wouldn't change those properties I guess.