I just finished implementing environment specific profiles in my maven project, which works great. After some time it stopped working. WTF.
The reason for that is because I made the project a Spring Boot project by adding the spring-boot-starter-parent to my POM file.
Normally you access filter variables using the ${variable} syntax in .properties files. But, as it turns out (see box):
If you are using Spring Boot, you have to use @variable@ instead! Source
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Here is the documentation page.
Took me a few hours to figure out. As soon as I changed the references in application.properties, all my file logging and stuff started working again.
How to handle environment specific properties during maven build
Filters are a really bad way of managing environment specific configuraton. Programmers have a tendency, when, given a hammer, to use that hammer for everything, including china vase repairs. {: .notice–danger}
A colleague at work pointed this out to me.
He suggested the better alternative is to create config modules in maven. These contain all the property files for a specific environment. Then use maven profiles to reference only the desired set of property files at build time using a -Pstaging flag on the mvn package command.
