springboot read tomcat-context.xml

Question

Hi we got a spring application running on tomcat application-server. I want to add integration tests with Springboot in JUnit. I now got the problem that the embedded tomcat

Answer 1

Spring Boot offer many ways to externalize your configuration...

You can define your datasource properties in your tomcat/conf/Catalina/ context descriptors.

You could define your jndi name:

Or define the datasource:

Even define the path to an application.properties and set here your configuration:

This way is not necessary set programmatically your hardcoded datasource and you can put another database configuration for testing in src/test/resources/application.properties:

spring.datasource.url=
spring.datasource.username=
spring.datasource.password=