Profiles in Spring Boot

Profiles in Spring Boot allow us to define different sets of configurations for various environments or use cases. These profiles help in managing application behavior such as connecting to different databases. It can enable or disable certain features or it can specify the environment-specific properties.

-> Spring Boot Profiles

Create separate property files for each profile such as the application-dev.properties and application-prod.properties and it can specify the profile-specific configurations of the application.

application-dev.properties:

greeting.message=Hello (Development)

application-prod.properties:

greeting.message=Hello (Production)

-> Maven Profiles

Maven Profiles provides the mechanism to customize the build configurations based on the different conditions or requirements. With Maven profiles, It defines different sets of dependencies, plugins, properties, and other build settings. It allows us to tailor the build process for specific scenarios.

Maven Profiles:

Define the Maven profiles in the pom.xml file and it can specify the activation criteria and configuration of the Spring application.

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>dev</id>
        <activation>
            <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
        </activation>
        <properties>
            <spring.profiles.active>dev</spring.profiles.active>
        </properties>
    </profile>
    <profile>
        <id>prod</id>
        <properties>
            <spring.profiles.active>prod</spring.profiles.active>
        </properties>
    </profile>
</profiles>

In Spring Boot, Profiles allows us to define sets of configurations for different environments or use cases. Active Profile in Spring Boot dynamically changes the behavior of the application based on the active profile. Maven is a popular tool that can be used to build the automation tool for Java projects. It can be utilized to manage the profiles in the Spring Boot applications effectively.