Confusion - Multiple Property Sources in Spring 3.1

[fritzr]

Hi guys,
I'm a bit confused with the new property sources. What I want to do is the following:

As per default, there is an environment.properties file in my classpath. This one should be used always as default. In order to be able to override some properties, an optional file "/etc/env.properties" should be loaded as well (but only if it is there).

I tried the following:

@PropertySource(value={"classpath:/environment.properties", "file:/etc/env.properties"})
public class Config {...}

This is not working in case there is no /etc/env.properties file.

The next thing I was trying was to remove the @PropertySource annotation and providing a PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer like this:

@Configuration
public class Config {
	@Autowired
	private Environment env;

	@Bean
	public static PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer properties() {
		PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer pspc = new PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer();
		Resource[] resources = new Resource[2];
		resources[0] = new ClassPathResource("environment.properties");
		resources[1] = new FileSystemResource("/etc/env.properties");
		pspc.setLocations(resources);
		pspc.setIgnoreResourceNotFound(true);
		return pspc;
	}
}

This was basically working, BUT whenever I try to load a property from the Environment, I was not able to find any of my configured propertySources. The content of my environment shows the following list of propertySources: ([servletConfigInitParams,servletContextInitParams,j ndiProperties,systemProperties,systemEnvironment]). So my configured sources are missing.

As I read, there is no way to use the @PropertySource Annotation and to define the IgnoreResourceNotFound setting. So what is the best way to solve my problem?

Best regards,
fr

[fritzr]

Nobody there who has the same issue? Topic clear or should I extend my example?