How do I load a resource and use its contents as a string in Spring

Question

How can I load a Spring resource contents and use it to set a bean property or pass it as an argument constructor?

The resource contains free text.

Answer 1

This is one way of doing it without using any external library.. default provided by spring.. environment.properties file contains key value pairs...reference each value with ${key}

here in my example, I am keeping database props

    
        
            classpath:environment.properties