Question

In Spring MVC Hibernate application , when i am trying to use properties file ,which is under src/java/resources , it is throwing below error :

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'userController': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private java.lang.String com.mcb.controller.UserController.strDefaultPage; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'mcbPage.name'

I am using below code to access property value in my controller class:

@Value("${mcbPage.name}") 
private String strDefaultPage;

I added bean in my ApplicationContext.xml file for the this property file:

<bean id="mcbProperties"
    class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean">
    <property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="true" />
    <property name="locations">
        <list>
            <value>classpath*:mcb.properties</value>
            <value>file:src/main/resources/mcb.properties</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>

<bean id="propertyConfigurer"
    class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
    <property name="systemPropertiesModeName" value="SYSTEM_PROPERTIES_MODE_OVERRIDE" />
    <property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="true" />
    <property name="properties" ref="mcbProperties" />
</bean>

and my properties file (mcb.properties) resides under src/main/resources. @Autowired is working fine. but when trying to use propert file it is throwing error while starting the server.
Could somebody help me in solving this ?

Answer 1

Update
Use

<util:properties id="mcbPage" location="classpath:mcb.properties"/>

and then in your Bean

private @Value("#{mcbPage['name']}") String strDefaultPage;