Question

I have a web-app, which loads a application-context files from many locations.

One of the application-context file is in a .jar file (this jar is present in WEB-INF/lib).

This application-context has an entry like this:

<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:META-INF/spring/default.app.properties" ignore-unresolvable="true" ignore-resource-not-found="true"/>

But the default.app.properties is never found. I keep getting errors about
Could not resolve placeholder ‘db.driver’ – something that is defined in default.app.properties and referred in application-context via ${db.driver}

It is almost as if property-placeholder is being ignored. I tried giving absolute path to my default.app.properties too.. even that wouldn’t work.

Answer 1

Have you solved this problem? I’ve encoutered the same recently. My solution is simple and unlikely to be the case but… in my case there were two types of placeholders of different types. One type was configured using

<context:property-placeholder/>

the other type was configured as a bean of type ServletContextPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer. Removing one type of placeholder solved the problem.