Issue with Spring profiles and my properties files

[Marten Deinum]

Strange.. My test is working as expected with the exact same setup only difference is I run it from a testcase and not a web application. But in theory the behavior should be the same.

[balteo]

Hi Marten!

I actually decided to give up (temporarily) on this issue and tried to switch back to a config without profiles.

Then I realized that the issue was elsewhere. For some reason, Spring does not like this:

<context:property-placeholder location="classpath*:META-INF/spring/*.properties" />
<context:property-placeholder location="classpath*:META-INF/spring/default/*.properties" />

Notice the nested "default" directory.

I had forgotten to mention the presence of the first line (above) in my original post because I deemed it irrelevant (sorry about that)...

[Marten Deinum]

The problem with that is that by default a property-placeholder resolves ALL placeholders if one cannot be found it throws an exception. You have 2 solutions for this.

1. set the property ignore-unresolvable to true on at least the first placeholder (however order is basically undetermined so you might need to set them on both)

2. Use a single property-placeholder which loads files from both location, use a , seperated location for that (simply putting both in).

[balteo]

Thanks Marten. That fixed it!