Where should I put application configuration files for a Maven project?

Question

I\'m using the Maven Application Assembler plugin to generate stand-alone executables from my Java project. The application reads in configuration files, including Spring fi

Answer 1

You can also use resource filtering: http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/index.html#How_do_I_filter_resource_files

turn on filtering:

...

...

      
        src/main/resources
        true
      
    
...

...

make a file under src/main/resources like: application.properties

application.properties

configprop.1=${param1}
configprop.2=${param2}

Then setup a profile and set some properties perhaps in a settings.xml that sets different properties depending on if this is a dev or production build. see: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html

I have different properties set depending on if this is the build server, dev or a production deployment

mvn -Denv=dev || mvn -Denv=dev-build || mvn -Denv=production

The maven link has a pretty good description.