Loading environment specific properties

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Hi,

i build my Spring app as a web application and deploy to one of 3 environments. Each time i build the war file (always on my local windows machine) I have to tweak certain properties so that Ant builds the right property files and places them inside the war.

This technique works but is getting tedious as i build for different environments each day.

An alternative is to have all the properties available to the application and then to load the correct property file. Without Spring, I would probably do something like this:

1. String hostname=java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHo stName();
2. look for a properties resource with that name in the classpath.

Since I am using Spring, I was wondering if there was a more elegent solution to this already. Perhaps some intervention with the bean factory on start up to something to configure the app.

Any ideas appreciated.

Cheers

Rakesh

[kbaum]

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