Default profile in Spring 3.1

Question

In my application I have beans annotated with @Profile("prod") and @Profile("demo"). The first one, as you can guess :), is used on beans that connect to production DB and second one annotates beans that use some fake DB (HashMap or whatever)- to make development faster.

What I would like to have is default profile ("prod") that will be used always if it is not overridden by "something-else".

Perfect would be to have in my web.xml:

<context-param>      <param-name>spring.profiles.active</param-name>      <param-value>prod</param-value> </context-param> 

and then override this with -Dspring.profiles.active="demo" so that I could do:

mvn jetty:run -Dspring.profiles.active="demo".  

But sadly this is not working. Any idea how could I achive that? Setting -Dspring.profiles.active="prod" on all my environments is not an option.

Answer 1

Define your production environment as default profile in your web.xml

<context-param>    <param-name>spring.profiles.default</param-name>    <param-value>prod</param-value> </context-param> 

and if you want to use a different profile pass it as system property

mvn -Dspring.profiles.active="demo" jetty:run 

Answer 2

My experience is that using

@Profile("default") 

the bean will only be added to the context if no other profile is identified. If you pass in a different profile, e.g. -Dspring.profiles.active="demo", this profile is ignored.