[Info] Spring PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer

How many times have you been on a project, and people are talking about where to share configuration data?

Do I use some constants? What about a config file (XML, properties, etc)?

Sometimes it isn't easy to know what to do, and you sometimes end up with duplicate information.

For example, what if you want to share database information between your code, your ant build, and anything else?

With Spring, you can use their really nice PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, and easily share a properties file. You can simply share one properties file for all of your build info as well as Spring sharing, or you can of course seperate things out, and have multiple 's in your build script.

So, the steps for sharing the data:......

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