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Question

I\'m fairly new to spring so excuse me if this is a dumb question. When I try to launch a program I get the following error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could

Answer 1

You are not reading the properties file correctly. The propertySource should pass the parameter as: file:appclient.properties or classpath:appclient.properties. Change the annotation to:

@PropertySource(value={"classpath:appclient.properties"})

However I don't know what your PropertiesConfig file contains, as you're importing that also. Ideally the @PropertySource annotation should have been kept there.