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Setting properties in my APP using Spring

 
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I have been trying to use Spring as a configuration serve for my App. I have looked into using the PRopertyPlaceholder functionality. I would like to have settings for properties set inot individual classes, not the monolithic place where all the values for PropertyPlaceholder are put.

Any advice?
 
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Mi Ku wrote:I have been trying to use Spring as a configuration serve for my App. I have looked into using the PRopertyPlaceholder functionality. I would like to have settings for properties set inot individual classes, not the monolithic place where all the values for PropertyPlaceholder are put.

Any advice?



Use the util namespace and use <util:properties id="someName" location="somelocation.properiest"/> tag,

Now you have a bean that gets created of type Properties that you can inject into you classes.

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Thanks.

What if I do not want to use a properties file, just a setting for a property in a bean or a set op properties in a Singleton that I can use in many classes
 
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Mi Ku wrote:Thanks.

What if I do not want to use a properties file, just a setting for a property in a bean or a set op properties in a Singleton that I can use in many classes


Then why use properties? If they are hard coded in the application, you could be using Java variables/constants.
 
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Even then, you could use the Spring Expression Language to do almost anything you want. It works in either XML...



...or with the @Value annotation...



As for the "some expression", it could be something like "#{someOtherBean.someProperty}" to pull the value of some other bean property. Or it could be "#{systemProperties.SOME_SYSTEM_PROPERTY}" to pull from a system property. Or you could use "#{systemEnvironment['SOME_ENV_VARIABLE']}" to get it from an environment variable.

That only shows a tiny bit of what SpEL can do, but it seemed pertinent to the question posed here.
 
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The value of the properties varies from environment to environment, hance the need to set them externally. Spring is the standard in my App. I am toying with the idea of creating a global properties file for all the settings and would like to have each individual developer 'pull' the value out of the properties file and inject them inot their beans as properties.

How would I "move" the values from the property file into each individual bean? I like the idea of the SPel, very much like the EL for JSPs

Thank you
 
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