spring-boot property injection not working in custom @Configuration class

Question

I wanted to make a DatabaseConfig class to setup my database related stuff (EntityManager, DataSource, TransactionManager) and to get the properties I use @Value("${property.name}") on String fields

like

@Configuration
public class DataBaseConfig {
    @Value("${hibernate.connection.username}")
    private String hibernateConnectionUsername;
    @Value("${hibernate.connection.password}")
    private String hibernateConnectionPassword;
    @Value("${hibernate.connection.driver_class}")
    private String hibernateConnectionDriverClass;
    @Value("${hibernate.connection.url}")
    private String hibernateConnectionUrl;
    @Value("${hibernate.dialect}")
    private String hibernateDialect;
    @Value("${hibernate.showSql}")
    private String hibernateShowSql;
    @Value("${hibernate.generateDdl}")
    private String hibernateGenerateDdl;

// All my @Beans
}

The Problem is, that all those Strings are NULL instead of the values of my properties file.

if I put the code into my Application class (the one that has the main and is referenced in SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);) the value injection works

In short, @Value works in my Application class, but not in my custom @Configuration classes :(

What could be wrong? Or are more informations needed?

UPDATE: More code

Way 1, DB Config and @Value in my Application.java works with and without the PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer

import java.beans.PropertyVetoException;

import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;
import javax.sql.DataSource;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.orm.jpa.HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.config.EnableJpaRepositories;
import org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager;
import org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean;
import org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter;
import org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager;

import com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource;

@Configuration
@ComponentScan
@EnableJpaRepositories
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class)
public class Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }

    // @Bean
    // public static PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer properties() {
    // PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer pspc = new PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer();
    // pspc.setLocations(new Resource[] { new ClassPathResource("application.properties") });
    // return pspc;
    // }

    /*****************************/
    @Value("${hibernate.connection.username}")
    private String hibernateConnectionUsername;

    @Value("${hibernate.connection.password}")
    private String hibernateConnectionPassword;

    @Value("${hibernate.connection.driver_class}")
    private String hibernateConnectionDriverClass;

    @Value("${hibernate.connection.url}")
    private String hibernateConnectionUrl;

    @Value("${hibernate.dialect}")
    private String hibernateDialect;
    @Value("${hibernate.showSql}")
    private String hibernateShowSql;
    @Value("${hibernate.generateDdl}")
    private String hibernateGenerateDdl;

    @Bean
    public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactory() {
        HibernateJpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
        vendorAdapter.setDatabasePlatform(hibernateDialect);
        boolean generateDdl = Boolean.parseBoolean(hibernateGenerateDdl);
        boolean showSql = Boolean.parseBoolean(hibernateShowSql);
        vendorAdapter.setGenerateDdl(generateDdl);
        vendorAdapter.setShowSql(showSql);

        LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean factory = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
        factory.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
        factory.setDataSource(dataSource());
        factory.setPackagesToScan("xxx");

        return factory;
    }

    @Bean
    public DataSource dataSource() {
        ComboPooledDataSource dataSource = new ComboPooledDataSource();
        dataSource.setUser(hibernateConnectionUsername);
        dataSource.setPassword(hibernateConnectionPassword);
        try {
            dataSource.setDriverClass(hibernateConnectionDriverClass);
        } catch (PropertyVetoException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Wrong driver class");
        }

        dataSource.setJdbcUrl(hibernateConnectionUrl);
        return dataSource;
    }

    @Bean
    public PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager(EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory) {
        return new JpaTransactionManager(entityManagerFactory);
    }
}

Way 2 (what i want to have), DB Stuff in its own file (DatabaseConfing.java) does not work regardles of where i have the PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer (Application or DatabaseConfig) as it is always called AFTER the @Beans inside the DatabaseConfig :(

import java.beans.PropertyVetoException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.support.PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer;
import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
import org.springframework.core.type.filter.AnnotationTypeFilter;
import org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean;
import org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter;

import com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource;


@Configuration
public class DatabaseConfig {
    @Value("${hibernate.connection.username}")
    private String hibernateConnectionUsername;
    @Value("${hibernate.connection.password}")
    private String hibernateConnectionPassword;
    @Value("${hibernate.connection.driver_class}")
    private String hibernateConnectionDriverClass;
    @Value("${hibernate.connection.url}")
    private String hibernateConnectionUrl;
    @Value("${hibernate.dialect")
    private String hibernateDialect;
    @Value("${hibernate.showSql}")
    private String hibernateShowSql;
    @Value("${hibernate.generateDdl}")
    private String hibernateGenerateDdl;

        // @Bean
        // public static PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer properties() {
        // PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer pspc = new PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer();
        // pspc.setLocations(new Resource[] { new ClassPathResource("application.properties") });
        // return pspc;
        // }

    @Bean
    public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactory() {
        HibernateJpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
        vendorAdapter.setDatabasePlatform(hibernateDialect);
        boolean generateDdl = Boolean.parseBoolean(hibernateGenerateDdl);
        boolean showSql = Boolean.parseBoolean(hibernateShowSql);
        vendorAdapter.setGenerateDdl(generateDdl);
        vendorAdapter.setShowSql(showSql);

        LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean factory = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
        factory.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
        factory.setDataSource(dataSource());
        factory.setPackagesToScan("xxx");

        return factory;
    }

    @Bean
    public DataSource dataSource() {
        ComboPooledDataSource dataSource = new ComboPooledDataSource();
        dataSource.setUser(hibernateConnectionUsername);
        dataSource.setPassword(hibernateConnectionPassword);
        try {
            dataSource.setDriverClass(hibernateConnectionDriverClass);
        } catch (PropertyVetoException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Wrong driver class");
        }
        System.err.println(hibernateConnectionUrl);
        dataSource.setJdbcUrl(hibernateConnectionUrl);
        return dataSource;
    }
}

Answer 1

Instead of your DatabaseConfig add the following application.properties to src/main/resources (and thus remove your DatabaseConfig class)

#DataSource configuration
spring.datasource.driverClassName=<hibernateConnectionDriverClass>
spring.datasource.url=<hibernateConnectionUrl>
spring.datasource.username=<hibernateConnectionUsername>
spring.datasource.password=<hibernateConnectionPassword>

#JPA/HIbernate
spring.jpa.database-platform=<dialect-class>
spring.jpa.generate-ddl=<hibernateGenerateDdl>
spring.jpa.show-sql=<hibernateShowSql>

Replace the < placeholder > with the actual value and spring-boot will take care of this.

Tip remove the C3P0 dependency as Spring will provide you (default) with the tomcat connection pool (which is newer and more activly maintained and despite the name is perfectly usable without/outside Tomcat).

Answer 2

@Import({ CacheConfig.class, DatabaseConfig.class })
@ComponentScan(excludeFilters = @Filter(Configuration.class))

did the trick.