shortcut for injecting strings with spring

Question

I inject Strings in my spring config by doing the following:

Answer 1

You should not have String beans. Just use their value directly.

Create a properties file strings.properties and put it on the classpath

strings.key=Region

Declare a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer

    
        strings.properties
    

Then annotate instance field Strings as

@Value("${strings.key}")
private String key;

Spring will inject the value from the strings.properties file into this key String.

This obviously assumes that the class in which the @Value annotation appears is a bean managed in the same context as the PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer.