maven build helper plugin issue - spring

Question

I'm using maven build helper to automatically add integration-test/java and integration-test/resources folders to my project classpath. It works great when I run my tests with JUnit in Eclipse, but got a problem when I ran the web project where Tomcat always pick up the test resources instead of the production one.
My project structure is something like this:
DaoProject
src/main/resources/datasource.properties
src/main/resources/spring-data.xml
src/main/java/....
WebProject
src/main/resources/appContext.xml
src/integration-test/java/com/mypkg/controller/MyControllerIT.java
src/integration-test/resources/datasource.properties
The appContext.xml imports spring-data.xml which in turn loads datasource.properties as a propterties source place holder.
appContext.xml contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd">
<context:annotation-config />
<tx:annotation-driven/>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.mypkg" />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />
<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource"
p:defaultEncoding="UTF-8">
<property name="basenames">
<array>
<value>messages</value>
</array>
</property>
</bean>
<import resource="classpath:datasource.xml" />
datasource.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation=
"http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd"
>
<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:datasources.properties"/>
<bean id="dataSource"
class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="org.postgresql.Driver" />
<property name="url" value="${config.db.url}" />
<property name="username" value="${config.db.username}" />
<property name="password" value="${config.db.password}" />
pom.xml:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>add-integration-test-sources</id>
<phase>generate-test-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>add-test-source</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<sources>
<source>src/integration-test/java</source>
</sources>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>add-integration-test-resources</id>
<phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>add-test-resource</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/integration-test/resources</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

Answer 1

I think that the problem is with the way you load the datasource.properties file. Try specifying the entire path in the location attribute of the PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer:
<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:src/main/resources/datasources.properties"/>
Hope this helps.