loading .properties in spring-context.xml and persistence.xml

Question

is there a way to reference a .properties file in a spring-context.xml and a JPA persistence.xml?

I think I\'ve seen somewhere an example of this in spring context f

Answer 1

You can reference external property files from a Spring bean definition file using a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer. I don't think that will work for a JPA persistence.xml, although Spring's JPA support allows you to incorporate most, if not all, the content of persistence.xml into the beans file itself, in which case it would work fine.