configloader | Python dictionary that supports common app configuration

Seems like Spring just doesn't register Hibernate ServiceRegistry as a bean. I looked through the sources and discover that its instance is created inside the SessionFactoryImpl constructor.

You can try to apply this hack.

It's definitely not an uncommon pattern in Lightbend Config/HOCON to define a class representing your application's configuration. On the Scala side, there are tools like PureConfig which make it easy to read a config into such a class. I'm not aware of similar tools on the Java side (e.g. which reflectively look at the configuration class and let you build an instance of that class from the Config object, inferring the schema along the way), but I don't think such tools are impossible.

Whether or not you're defining such a class, it's generally a good idea to have one and only one load of config in an application and then pass either the class you defined to represent the configuration or the Config object around: file/resource I/O and parsing is not free and multiple loads can add cognitive load.

I'm a little dubious on reading both application-dev.conf and application-prod.conf. If your application needs both sets of Kafka brokers (e.g. it's consuming from one and producing to the other), then it might be worth having (e.g.) a source-kafka and destination-kafka config stanza in a single config file. Alternatively, if your application will only in practice be using one config, you can specify the config.file property (e.g. by adding -Dconfig.file=application-dev.conf on the Java command line) and then just use ConfigFactory.load(). In such cases, it may be a good idea to combine config files via HOCON's file inclusion capability. This is often used to define an overrides config file with deployment-/environment-specific config which includes the regular application.conf which combines more universal settings.

You don't need to define config paths, config loader etc unless you are trying to override something.

If you are using kedro 0.17.x, the hooks.py will look something like this.

Kedro will pass, base, local and the env you specified during runtime in conf_paths into ConfigLoader.

From your stated "desired end goal"

Always include the resource files in the separate resources directory. As by default, Maven (and so IDE as well) will not copy the resource files from the source directory.

Don't use a thread for this. The better option is to use an animation. Animations are asynchronous but execute on the JavaFX Application Thread. For example, you could use a PauseTransition:

You can’t with the default launch script. It uses the directory that contains the jar file as the working directory. This is primarily aimed at applications that are used as services rather than a CLI application and isn’t customisable with the default script.

I’d recommend using Spring Boot’s ability to build a fully-executable jar file with a custom launch script that meets your needs. You can do so with the script property:

If you want to use https, please refer to the following configuration:

Clean installation of NetBeans fixed the issue!