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Frank
Frank

Reputation: 31090

Why the same properties file was found at startup but not later in Spring Java app?

I have a "applicationContext.xml" file which has the following lines :

<bean id="jdbcPropertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="location">
            <value>/WEB-INF/properties/support-center.properties</value>
        </property>
</bean>

The app started fine. But when I called :

ApplicationContext ctx=new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml");

It gave an error message :

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [WEB-INF/properties/support-center.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist

So, I thought maybe if I change it to <value>support-center.properties</value> and put the property file in the same dir as applicationContext.xml , it might find it, but no, the whole app won't even start, and said it can't find support-center.properties

Now I'm confused, because the original setting : /WEB-INF/properties/support-center.properties was correct, it started the app with this setting, but why when I called :

ctx=new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml");

it couldn't find the property ? Same setting, found at start up, but now later. Why ?

Edit :

Thanks to the answer, it worked [ with minor correction ], it should be :

<bean id="jdbcPropertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
    <property name="location" value ="classpath:support-center.properties" />
</bean>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 84

Answers (2)

sendon1982
sendon1982

Reputation: 11304

The problem is that when new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml") is called, it will keep use the current path (classpath) as the location. So /WEB-INF/properties/support-center.properties is not existing under classpath folder.

You can eith add /WEB-INF/properties/support-center.properties to classpath or just copy the file to the same location as applicationContext.xml, then use:

classpath:support-center.properties

Upvotes: 1

Scary Wombat
Scary Wombat

Reputation: 44854

Assuming that support-center.properties is in the same directory, or in you classpath try using 

<bean id="propertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="location" value ="classpath:support-center.properties" />
</bean>

Upvotes: 1

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