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Spring : Initialization of properties before any bean creation

I have the project structure as following -
Facade -> Service-> DAO
In the DAO layer, when the beans are initialized then many dependencies are injected from a property file. Therefore, the properties file must be read first and then the remaining dao beans must be created. When the application is started then it gives an error that Spring cannot resolve a placeholder.
The DAO-application-context.xml is like-
<bean
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="prop">
<value>app.properties</value>
</property>
</bean>
<import resource = "a-dao.xml" />
<import resource = "b-dao.xml" />
<import resource = "c-dao.xml" />
Now in all the child application contexts i.e. a-dao, etc, we have-
<bean ....>
<property name = "xyz">
<value>${appValue}<value/>
</property>
<bean>
The error received is that appValue cannot be resolved. I think that it may be due to incorrect sequence of bean creation. However, the same config is working in another larger project.
I have checked Order of Spring Bean Initialization but implementing that solution would not be feasible. Is there any other way ?

Reg this Block of Configuration, property prop seems to be wrong
<bean
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="prop">
<value>app.properties</value>
</property>
</bean>
According to the Spring documentation
You could use the property location or locations to set the one or multiple values of the properties file.
So the code should be refactored to
<bean
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="location">
<value>app.properties</value>
</property>
</bean>

Configure a Repository on Spring via XML

I have been surfing on Internet for hours trying to find a good example to configure a Spring's repository by using the XML instead of annotations (#Repository).
I found some good stuff (Hibernate 3):
<!-- Hibernate interceptor to manage the session outside any transaction scope. -->
<bean id="hibernateInterceptor"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateInterceptor">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
</bean>
<!-- The configuration DAO -->
<bean id="configurationDAO"
class="org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactoryBean">
<property name="target" ref="configurationDAOTarget"/>
<property name="proxyInterfaces" value="org.itracker.persistence.dao.ConfigurationDAO"/>
<property name="interceptorNames">
<list>
<value>hibernateInterceptor</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="configurationDAOTarget"
class="org.itracker.persistence.dao.ConfigurationDAOImpl">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
</bean>
But it seems that Hibernate 4 does not support HibernateInterceptor any longer.
Have any of you experience with this issue? A good solution? There's no other option rather than using the annotation?
Thanks in advance.

All #Repository does is meta-annotate a #Component and let the org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor create an AOP proxy which does exception translation. At that level it's all Hibernate independent. The different implementations then understand their own exceptions and translate to the common Spring DataAccessException hierarchy.
In terms of doing it with XML, you'd have to somehow apply that proxy to the DAO beans you care about. Take a look at the reference manual for that, but it's going to be painful and not win you much.
For the sake of completeness, you can change the annotation from #Repository to something else, but as I read your question, you don't want to use annotations at all.

How to stick with both XML and Annotation based configuration Spring

Currently i am using spring 2.5 XML based configuration for bean. Now i want to upgrade it to Spring 3.x. I want to know after upgrading to 3.x my old XML configuration will work or not. If works then can i write annotation based configuration for new work in my current project.
Example of XML configuration:
<bean id="addTestimonialController" class="com.eam.web.testimonial.AddTestimonialController" singleton="true">
<property name="branchManager" ref="branchMan"/>
<property name="userManager" ref="userMan"/>
<property name="itemManager" ref="itemMan"/>
<property name="vendorManager" ref="vendorMan"/>
<property name="categoryManager" ref="categoryMan"/>
<property name="lineupManager" ref="lineupMan"/>
<property name="testimonialManager" ref="testimonialMan"/>
<property name="categoryMenuManager" ref="categoryMenuMan"/>
<property name="setManager" ref="setMan"/>
<property name="configurationManager" ref="configMan"/>
<property name="cartManager" ref="cartMan"/>
<property name="employeeManager" ref="employeeMan"/>
<property name="employeeBranchManager" ref="employeeBranchMan"/>
<property name="orderItemManager" ref="orderItemMan"/>
<property name="orderFaxManager" ref="orderFaxMan"/>
<property name="sessionForm" value="true"/>
<property name="commandName" value="addTestimonialBean"/>
<property name="branchesVendorManager" ref="branchesVendorMan" />
<property name="commandClass" value="com.eam.bus.testimonial.TestimonialBean"/>
<property name="validator" ref="addTestimonialValidator"/>
<property name="formView" value="addtestimonial"/>
<property name="successView" value="listtestimonials.html"/>
</bean>
Please help me. Also let me know if you similar link where somebody has explained both the configuration in a single configuration file.
Appreciate your help.

You can very well use both XML based metadata and Annotation based configuration metadata in your application. The configuration metadata is the information how you tell the Spring container to instantiate, configure, and assemble the objects in your application. Configuration metadata is traditionally supplied in a simple and intuitive XML format. i.e XML based configuration metadata. Spring 2.5 introduced support for annotation-based configuration metadata.Starting with Spring 3.0, many features provided by the Spring JavaConfig project became part of the core Spring Framework. Thus, you have different ways of providing your configuration metadata of your application through XML, Annotation based and Java config from Spring 3.x versions. This link will take you in the right direction. You must have to learn IOC chapter in Spring documentation

you can use both annotation based configuration and xml based (ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping ) by specifying the order of these handlers.
for annotation based Configuration use below
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping" >
<property name="order" value="0"/>
</bean>
for annotation based configuration we have to provide location ie: where to locate annotated controllers.
<context:component-scan base-package="ur packageName" />
here package name will be the package where #Controller classes are located.
for Controller Class Name based url Mapping
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping" >
<property name= "order" value="2"/>
</bean>

Seam/Hibernate: liquibase before JPA startup

I have a Java EE web application (hibernate3, seam) that I'm using in Weblogic container.
I want to introduce Liquibase for schema migrations.
Currently we use
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update"/>
which we want to drop because it can be dangerous.
I want the migration to automatically happen at deployments, so I'm using the servlet listener integration.
In web.xml, the first listener is:
<listener>
<listener-class>liquibase.integration.servlet.LiquibaseServletListener</listener-class>
</listener>
Sadly, this listener comes into play after the Hibernate initialization and it throws missing table errors (because the schema is empty).
I'm google-ing like a boss for hours and I'm a bit confused now.
Thanks in advance
UPDATE
If I set <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="none" />, liquibase finishes it's job successfully and the app starts up as expected. If I set validate, it seems like hibernate schema validation takes place before liquibase and it cries because of missing tables.
UPDATE
It seems like Seam initializes Hibernate, but Liquibase listener is listed before SeamListener, so I have no clue on how to enable schema validation and liquibase at the same time...

My understanding is that the LiquibaseServletListener requires the path to change log file which is passed using liquibase.changelog context param. So you already have a change log generated or am I missing something here ?
You can take a look at the liquibase hibernate integration library provided by Liquibase.
This library works with both the classic hibernate configuration (via .cfg and .xml files) as well as JPA configuration via persistence.xml.
AFAIK, generating the changelog and running the change log are two seperate process. Liquibase hibernate integration library helps in generating the change log from the diff of current state of entities in persistence unit and the current database state.

How to determine the order of listeners in web.xml
You should place:
<listener>
<listener-class>liquibase.integration.servlet.LiquibaseServletListener</listener-class>
</listener>
before ORM or framework other related listeners.
I use Spring beans LiquiBase activation to reduce DB authentication data duplication by using already provided datasource bean:
<bean id="liquibase" class="liquibase.integration.spring.SpringLiquibase">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="changeLog" value="classpath:sql/master.sql" />
<property name="defaultSchema" value="PRODUCT" />
</bean>
To restrict order use depends-on attribute:
<bean id="entityManagerFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean"
depends-on="liquibase">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter" />
</property>
<property name="packagesToScan" value="product.domain" />
<property name="jpaProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">validate</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>

spring dynamic domain in HttpInvokerProxyFactoryBean

I'm new to spring and its bean injection framework and I need advice on understanding how to utilize them. Currently I have the following,
<beans>
<bean id="citationService" class="org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerProxyFactoryBean">
<property name="serviceUrl" value="http://localhost:8080/PPDFWeb/hello.htm"/>
<property name="serviceInterface" value="test_client.HelloService"/>
<property name="httpInvokerRequestExecutor">
<bean class="org.springframework.security.remoting.httpinvoker.AuthenticationSimpleHttpInvokerRequestExecutor">
</bean>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
Now i need the domain name of the service url to be dynamic so I can set it somewhere programmatically in my code. Is there some way to leave the bean intact in the xml and change the serviceUrl of the bean?

Just mark it like:
<property name="serviceUrl" value="{serviceURL}"/>
Edit:
There are just too many solutions available on SO, I didn't do a good search earlier:
reading a dynamic property list into a spring managed bean
HttpInvokerProxyFactoryBean-set-url-dynamically