<context-param>
  <param-name>spring.profiles.active</param-name>
  <param-value>test, dev, prod</param-value>
</context-param>

> ls src/main/webapp/resources/properties/
application-dev.properties  application-prod.properties application-test.properties

jdbc.driverClassName=org.postgresql.Driver
jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/galapagos
jdbc.username=foo
jdbc.password=

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.0.xsd">

  ....

  <!-- Database / JDBC -->

  <beans:bean
    class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
    <beans:property name="location" value="resources/properties/application.properties" />
  </beans:bean>

  <beans:bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
    <beans:property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
    <beans:property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}" />
    <beans:property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}" />
    <beans:property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" />
  </beans:bean>

  ....

</beans:beans>