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I’m building a Java ZK/Spring/Hibernate web app using the MyEclipse IDE. I test the code locally using the MyEclipse Tomcat server.

With my Spring bean configuration I have extracted the machine specific settings into a separate ‘environ.properties’ parameters file, like…

site.url=http://localhost:8080/skap/ 
mail.sender.host=smtp.gggg.com 
mail.sender.port=25 
mail.sender.username=yyfgfgft@gggg.com 
mail.sender.from=yyfgfgft@gggg.com 
database.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/skap 
database.uid=root 
database.pwd=root 

In my Spring context file I use the property place holder configurer bean to push these machine specific settings into various bean properties, like…

 
   <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"> 
      <property name="locations"> 
         <value>classpath:environ.properties</value> 
      </property> 
   </bean> 

   <bean id="EnvironManager" class="com.eis.environ.EnvironManager"> 
      <property name="siteURL" value="${site.url}" /> 
      <property name="mailSenderFrom" value="${mail.sender.from}" /> 
   </bean> 

   <bean id="MailSender" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl"> 
      <property name="host" value="${mail.sender.host}"/> 
      <property name="port" value="${mail.sender.port}"/> 
      <property name="username" value="${mail.sender.username}"/> 
      <property name="password" value="${mail.sender.password}"/> 
   </bean> 

In order to deploy my test app from my local development test machine to a test server I want to deploy the code with a different ‘environ.properties’ file that reflects the settings for the remote test machine. For this to work I have to exclude my properties file from the build process, and instead include this as a separate deliverable.

Can somebody advise me how I can achieve this so that the ‘environ.properties’ is not automatically included in the build process, and that perhaps as part of some post build step I can copy the ‘environ.properties’ file to the MyEclipse Tomcat server?

TIA

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