Injecting Properties using Spring & annotation @Value

Question

I am trying to load a properties file into a Spring bean and then inject that bean into a class.

The only part I can\'t get to work seems to be using the @Resourc

Answer 1

For your solution to work you would also need to make foo a Spring managed bean; because otherwise how would Spring know that it has to deal with any of your annotations on your class?

• You can either specify it in your appcontext xml as a bean with ..class="foo"
• Or use component-scan and specify a base package which contains your foo class.

Since I'm not entirely sure this is exactly what you want (don't you want a .properties file to be parsed by Spring and have it's key-value pairs available instead of a Properties object?), I'm suggesting you another solution: Using the util namespace

And reference the values inside your beans (also, have to be Spring managed):

@Value("#{props.foo}")
public void setFoo(String foo) {
    this.foo = foo;
}

EDIT:

just realized that you are importing org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext in your class which is probably unnecessary. I strongly encourage you to read Spring reference at least the first few chapters, because a) it's a great read b) you will find it much easier to understand Spring if the basics are clear.