property not found with multiple context:property-placeholder

Question

I am using spring 3.1 with spring profiles to load the beans. In my app context file, I load the properties like :

Answer 1

Each creates a new instance of PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer - it gets messy easily. You should have one such thing per application and on application level, not on libraries' one - that makes maintenance much easier.

For more details and a suggestion how to cope with it look here: http://rostislav-matl.blogspot.cz/2013/06/resolving-properties-with-spring.html