Does mybatis support multiple configuration file?

[George]

I am an user of ibatis and i found that when my project includes more than two modules, the configuration file becomes very hard to maintain. I mean you can add many mapper files that belong to your modules to the ibatis configuration file, and all of the modules share the same settings, environments, type-alias etc, the question is what if some settings should be just for module A, so they are meaningless for other modules? The best thing i got is ibatis should support multiple configuration file, and let the module maintain the configuration by itself and the project just load the sub-configuration files as it loads the mapper files?

Is this possible with mybatis?

Best,

George

[Guy]

I don't know your runtime environment (Spring Guice with injection or
simple Java) but if the latter, you specify which configuration file
you want to load by doing something like this:

Reader reader = Resources.getResourceAsReader("iBatisConfig.xml");
sqlSessionFactory = new SqlSessionFactoryBuilder().build(reader);

You can do this as many times as you'd like within a single program,
so you can load multiple configurations. You then create your mappers
from the desired SqlSessionFactory or SqlSessionManager.

Is this not what you mean?

[George Cao]

Thanks a lot. I do not use spring in my project，and your example just inspired me that i can use different configuration file directly.