profiles

What's the difference between profiles

Q: how many profiles we have? A: Now we have 2 spring profiles: prod and test.

Q: how are they get activated? A: We choose what profile will be use by setting profile property in spring-boot-maven-plugin plugin configuration section in pom.xml or by setting JAVA_OPTS parameter -Dspring.profiles.active.

Q: what the differences?

Properties	test	prod
Database	H2 in memory	MySQL
Where we store stamp images(ImagePersistenceStrategy)	DB	Server filesystem directory