handling properties file

src/main/java/excel2db/excel2db.java

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package excel2db;
 
 
-
 import com.ge.mdm.tools.common.ApplicationException;
 import com.ge.mdm.tools.common.SheetEntityManager;
 import org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils;
@@ -16,6 +15,7 @@
 import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
 import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
 
@@ -41,6 +41,22 @@ public class excel2db
     private String fileExtension;
     private static Short numberProcessedRecords = Short.valueOf((short)0);
 
+    @Value("${db.server}")
+    String dbServer;
+
+    @Value("${db.user}")
+    String dbUser;
+
+    @Value("${db.password}")
+    String dbPassword;
+
+    @Value("${db.port}")
+    String dbPort;
+
+    @Value("${db.database}")
+    String dbDatabase;
+
+
     Connection connection = null;
 
     public excel2db() {}
@@ -118,7 +134,9 @@ public void establishPostgresConnection()
     {
         try
         {
-            connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5433/excel2db", "postgres", "postgres");
+            connection = DriverManager.getConnection(
+                    "jdbc:postgresql://" + dbServer + ":" + dbPort + "/" + dbDatabase, dbUser, dbPassword)
+            ;
         }
         catch (SQLException e)
         {

src/main/resources/excel2db.properties

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# postgres parameters
+db.server=localhost
+db.database=excel2db
+db.port=5433
+db.user=postgres
+db.password=postgres

src/main/resources/spring.xml

@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
 <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
 
-<beans xmlns = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-       xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-       xsi:schemaLocation = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
-   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
+    <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+           xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+           xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+           xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
+       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
 
-    <bean id = "excel2db" class = "excel2db.excel2db">
-    </bean>
+
+    <context:component-scan base-package="excel2db" />
+    <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:excel2db.properties, file:excel2db.properties" ignore-resource-not-found="true"/>
+
+    <bean id = "excel2db" class = "excel2db.excel2db"></bean>
 
 </beans>