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Subject: Re: Specifying Spring DI XML config file location
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 21:07:50 -0400
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On 6/4/2020 4:31 PM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
> On 2020-06-03 03:25, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> If I have some code that does not use Spring DI directly but uses
>> a library that uses Spring DI, then what are my options for
>> specifying what XML config file that library should use?
>>
>> Any class and method:
>>
>> SomeSpringClass.setDefaultConfigURL("...");
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Any property:
>>
>> -Dspring.config.url=....
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Google does not seem to be my friend today.
> 
> https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/5.3.0-SNAPSHOT/spring-framework-reference/core.html#beans-basics
> 
> Don't know the details, but `new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(...)` or
> `new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(...)` would seem the way to go.
> 
> Specifying the location alone (likely) won't help you. You need
> something that starts the engine that will try to read those sources --
> i.e. the ApplicationContext.

That is already being done in the library.

I need a way to control where the library find the XML config
file without hacking the library.

Arne