Question

I am trying to build a stand alone Spring based Java application.

I am using Maven assembly plugin to build the JAR with dependencies. The strcture of the JAR ends up looking like this (Just a subset):

com
META-INF
org
properties
 - taskexecutor.properties
spring
 - properties.xml
.
.
.

Manifest looks like this:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Archiver-Version: Plexus Archiver
Created-By: Apache Maven
Built-By: authorname
Build-Jdk: 1.6.0_30
Main-Class: com.company.utilities.task.TaskLauncher

When the application runs the property placeholder should be configured by including the properties.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd">

    <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:/properties/taskExecutor.properties"/>

</beans> 

It runs fine in Eclipse, but when I run the JAR I get this error:

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanInitializationException: Could not load properties; nested exception is java.io.FileN
otFoundException: class path resource [properties/taskExecutor.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyResourceConfigurer.postProcessBeanFactory(PropertyResourceConfigurer.java:78)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:663)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:638)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:407)
        at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139)
        at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83)
        at com.company.utilities.task.TaskLauncher.main(TaskLauncher.java:28)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [properties/taskExecutor.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist
        at org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource.getInputStream(ClassPathResource.java:158)
        at org.springframework.core.io.support.PropertiesLoaderSupport.loadProperties(PropertiesLoaderSupport.java:181)
        at org.springframework.core.io.support.PropertiesLoaderSupport.mergeProperties(PropertiesLoaderSupport.java:161)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyResourceConfigurer.postProcessBeanFactory(PropertyResourceConfigurer.java:69)
        ... 6 more

Any ideas?

Answer 1

It appears running through the command line is case sensitive but Eclipse is not when loading these resources.

Renaming taskexecutor.properties to taskExecutor.properties fixed the issue. Oops. Hopefully this helps someone equally as stupid as me in the future 😉