Javatech

Your Spring configuration probably consists of one or more well know XML files which are loaded by name. Have you ever wanted to override something without having to touch your base configuration? Here’s what we do. After we load our base configuration we use a pattern to load any XML files which exist in a specific “configuration-override” directory. In most cases the directory is empty and just the base configuration is loaded. When we want to override a particular bean we just place a file in the override directory.Here’s a clip from the Spring API docs:

clipped from static.springframework.org 4.7.2.1. Ant-style Patterns When the path location contains an Ant-style pattern, for example: /WEB-INF/*-context.xml com/mycompany/**/applicationContext.xml file:C:/some/path/*-context.xml classpath:com/mycompany/**/applicationContext.xml