How do you configure a Spring bean container to load a Java property file?

Question

How do you configure a Spring bean container (or application context) to load a Java property file?

JavaWorld article Smartly Load Your Properties explains how to load p

Answer 1

Your beans.xml file should have a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer:

    
        
            classpath:some/pkg/resource.properties
        
    
    
    
        
            value
        
    

And then you can reference the properties as such elsewhere in the beans.xml:

    ....

For an article about this, check out http://almaer.com/blog/spring-propertyplaceholderconfigurer-a-nice-clean-way-to-share