spring profile groups

Question

I have an application, for which I can specify the profiles I want to run it on. but I also want to group these profiles into things like credentails, application performance, memory-print, application behaviour etc. Ex. I can run the following profiles

-Dspring.profiles.active=production,cached-local,db-connection-pooled...

but I would prefer initializing it as

-Dspring.profiles.active=production,super-fast
#the above activates method level caches, db connection pooling etc
#super-fast triggered activation of cached-local, db-connection-pooled profiles

or

-Dspring.profiles.active=dev,low-footprint
#the above dosent enable caching, or db connection pooling

can this be achieved without writing any custom code like How to set active spring 3.1 environment profile via a properites file and not via an env variable or system property. I am fine even if I can load these from properties files or inside spring-xml config. I am using xml only config on spring 3.1.

Answer 1

Spring Boot have since added functionality to address this problem, called "Profile Groups". A profile group allows you to define a logical name for a related group of profiles.

For example, we can create a production group that consists of our proddb and prodmq profiles.

This allows for a grouping to be defined, which is added to the spring-profiles-active, which when enabled, in turn, enables other profiles.

For more information see https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/features.html#features.profiles.groups