Disabling JMX in a spring application

I'm trying to disable jmx so that i don't get:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: 
Error creating bean with name 'mbeanExporter'anymore. 

I've found a partial answer saying that I should include this in the application.properties file:

• spring.datasource.jmx-enabled=false

So I created the file with that one line. But how do I make sure that Spring acutally reads it? Do I need to edit something in spring.xml? If so, where?

Are you using spring boot? If so you just need to place the file in src\main\resources\application.properties by default

You can check sample projects here https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/master/spring-boot-samples