Spring @Value is not resolving to value from property file

Question

I\'ve had this working in some other project before, I am just re-doing the same thing but for some reason it\'s not working. The Spring @Value is not reading f

Answer 1

Have a read of pedjaradenkovic's comment.

Further to the link he provides, the reason this isn't working is that @Value processing requires a PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer instead of a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer.