Polish Externalized Configuration section

Closes gh-3823
pull/3886/head
Stephane Nicoll 9 years ago
parent 6869b0d987
commit 6393569d42

@ -224,7 +224,9 @@ Spring Boot allows you to externalize your configuration so you can work with th
application code in different environments. You can use properties files, YAML files,
environment variables and command-line arguments to externalize configuration. Property
values can be injected directly into your beans using the `@Value` annotation, accessed
via Spring's `Environment` abstraction or bound to structured objects.
via Spring's `Environment` abstraction or
<<boot-features-external-config-typesafe-configuration-properties,bound to structured objects>>
via `@ConfigurationProperties`.
Spring Boot uses a very particular `PropertySource` order that is designed to allow
sensible overriding of values, properties are considered in the the following order:
@ -244,7 +246,8 @@ sensible overriding of values, properties are considered in the the following or
variants).
. Application properties packaged inside your jar (`application.properties` and YAML
variants).
. `@PropertySource` annotations on your `@Configuration` classes.
. {spring-javadoc}/context/annotation/PropertySource.{dc-ext}[`@PropertySource`] annotations
on your `@Configuration` classes.
. Default properties (specified using `SpringApplication.setDefaultProperties`).
To provide a concrete example, suppose you develop a `@Component` that uses a
@ -315,7 +318,8 @@ following locations and add them to the Spring `Environment`:
. A classpath `/config` package
. The classpath root
The list is ordered by precedence (locations higher in the list override lower items).
The list is ordered by precedence (properties defined in locations higher in the list
override those defined in lower locations).
NOTE: You can also <<boot-features-external-config-yaml, use YAML ('.yml') files>> as
an alternative to '.properties'.

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