Stop using @value annotation in spring boot.

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5 min readMar 29, 2024

Configuration is an important topic of every application which has more than a couple of hundred lines of code. In case you are using Spring, you would typically use Spring’s @Value annotation to load values from a Java properties file.

Let’s have a look at the classic @Value annotation in Spring, it may look something like this:

@Service
public class EmployeeServiceImpl implements EmployeeService {

private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(EmployeeServiceImpl.class)…

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