spring-boot Create and Use of multiple application.properties files Set the right spring-profile by building the application automatically (maven)

Example

By creating multiple properties files for the different environments or use cases, its sometimes hard to manually change the active.profile value to the right one. But there is a way to set the active.profile in the application.properties file while building the application by using maven-profiles.

Let's say there are three environments property files in our application:

application-dev.properties:

spring.profiles.active=dev
server.port=8081

application-test.properties:

spring.profiles.active=test
server.port=8082

application-prod.properties.

spring.profiles.active=prod
server.port=8083

Those three files just differ in port and active profile name.

In the main application.properties file we set our spring profile using a maven variable:

application.properties.

spring.profiles.active=@profileActive@

After that we just have to add the maven profiles in our pom.xml We will set profiles for all three environments:

 <profiles>
        <profile>
            <id>dev</id>
            <activation>
                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
            </activation>
            <properties>
                <build.profile.id>dev</build.profile.id>
                <profileActive>dev</profileActive>
            </properties>
        </profile>
        <profile>
            <id>test</id>
            <properties>
                <build.profile.id>test</build.profile.id>
                <profileActive>test</profileActive>
            </properties>
        </profile>
        <profile>
            <id>prod</id>
            <properties>
                <build.profile.id>prod</build.profile.id>
                <profileActive>prod</profileActive>
            </properties>
        </profile>
    </profiles>

You are now able to build the application with maven. If you dont set any maven profile, its building the default one (in this example it's dev). For specify one you have to use a maven keyword. The keyword to set a profile in maven is -P directly followed by the name of the profile: mvn clean install -Ptest.

Now, you are also able to create custom builds and save those in your IDE for faster builds.

Examples:

mvn clean install -Ptest

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2017-06-06 11:24:44.885  INFO 6328 --- [           main] com.demo.SpringBlobApplicationTests      : Starting SpringApplicationTests on KB242 with PID 6328 (started by me in C:\DATA\Workspaces\spring-demo)
2017-06-06 11:24:44.886  INFO 6328 --- [           main] com.demo.SpringApplicationTests      : The following profiles are active: test

mvn clean install -Pprod

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2017-06-06 14:43:31.067  INFO 6932 --- [           main] com.demo.SpringBlobApplicationTests      : Starting SpringApplicationTests on KB242 with PID 6328 (started by me in C:\DATA\Workspaces\spring-demo)
2017-06-06 14:43:31.069  INFO 6932 --- [           main] com.demo.SpringApplicationTests      : The following profiles are active: prod