Class path precedence

[kri shan]

Whether jar's meta class path ( test.properties ) or Spring <property name="location" value="classpath:/test.properties"/> takes higher precedence ?

[Bill Gorder]

I don't understand the question. Higher precedence with what? Give me an example use case.

[kri shan]

Whether jar's meta class path ( test.properties ) or Spring <property name="location" value="classpath:/test1.properties"/> takes higher precedence ?

Which one loads first ?

[Bill Gorder]

Ok. Repeating the same thing twice and bolding it does not help me understand you any better.

I am going to guess you are building a Spring jar project, and test.properties is part of the project and is being bundled in the JAR. I am guessing this, because you have not told me any more details after I asked for clarification.

This bit here

classpath:test.properties"/

Looks at the root of your jar for test.properties. There will be only one because otherwise they would overwrite each other as they would have the same name.

I still don't know what you mean by meta class path. If you mean the META-INF directory then you would have to access that property like this:

classpath:/META-INF/test.properties"/

So there would be no collision.

If you are asking something totally different it sounds like you could easily run a test put different values in each location in your test.properties and see which one gets loaded.