Accessing spring property file from outside war file

Question

accessing property file from outside war file then am getting error message its absolute path then working fine .Please help

<util:properties id="configs" location="${ext.prop.file}/config.properties" /> --Not working 

ext.prop.file = " c:/test

<util:properties id="configs" location="file:/c:/test/config.properties" /> -- Working fine

Answer 1

You can do this by simply adding it to the context of the application at the time of context loading.

<context:property-placeholder location="${propfile}"/>

Above config will load the property file onto the context using the variable propFile . This variable is declared at runtime, as below.

-DpropFile="file:/path/to/file.properties"

Thereafter, you can use @Values annotation in your class to access properties from this file.

@Values("${someVal}")
private String someVal;

Above statement is trying to access property with key as someVal in property file and assign it to String someVal .