spring PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer and context:property-placeholder

Question

I have following bean declaration:

Answer 1

First, you don't need to define both of those locations. Just use classpath:config/properties/database.properties. In a WAR, WEB-INF/classes is a classpath entry, so it will work just fine.

After that, I think what you mean is you want to use Spring's schema-based configuration to create a configurer. That would go like this:

Note that you don't need to "ignoreResourceNotFound" anymore. If you need to define the properties separately using util:properties:

There's usually not any reason to define them separately, though.