Spring : PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer cannot find property file

Question

I have a strange problem with Spring using PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer. One of my beans is designed as follow :

Answer 1

try classpath*:jdbc.properties

Answer 2

IANA OSGI developer, but a quick Google search results in a link to the Spring-osgi documentation. Look at section 5.4 and note that the spring-osgi package makes some changes to Resource loading. It looks like the ResourceLoader implemented by the default ApplicationContext for osgi will automatically pre-pend osgibundle: if no other prefix is provided.

It appears as though there is some difference in scope between the path searched when using classpath: and the path used when using classpath*:, but I have so far been unable to find a good explanation for it.