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

If you want to reference the object as an instance of java.util.Properties, you should do the following:

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            classpath:property-file.properties
        
    

This allows you to reference the Spring bean properties as an instance of java.util.Properties. You can even have it merge together multiple properties files by adding more values to location. See this description of resource strings for information about what types of values Spring will accept for location. If you are wanting to use ${} style substitutions in the Spring XML, you can see there are a number of other answers describing how to do that.