how to set profile-specific applicaiton.properties(spring boot) outside war(jboss)?

I have spring boot application that I am running in jboss(instead of tomcat). I am using spring profile for loading environment specific application.properties.

Profile specific application{env}.properties is working fine when placed under "src/main/resources/" however, it is not working when placed externally.

I tried setting property in jboss standalone.xml but application fails to start in jboss.

<property name="spring.config.location" value="C:/Dev/config/rt" />

Please suggest how to load the environment specific application.properties files that are not placed inside the war file.

Solution

I was expecting spring to pick the profile specific file from the folder but looks like that's not the case.

It appears that spring.config.location needs to have the absolute file location instead of folder location. so, updated spring.config.location in standalone.xml and it worked :

<property name="spring.config.location" value="C:/Dev/config/rt/application-dev.properties" />