loading properties file in spring

Question

One of our team has implemented loading properties this way (see pseudo code below) and advises this approach is right as the client application using this is free to keep t

Answer 1

+1 for Dave's suggestion. You should be using PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer for loading\reading properties. Here is the example i just pulled out from my previous project if you wonder how to use this. This example is for loading multiple properties files but the concept is same. Good luck.

    
        
            classpath:config.properties