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copied!<p>I am trying to load a property file (.properties) into my class, I am following the example in another thread here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9259819/how-to-read-values-from-properties-file">How to read values from properties file?</a> - but it's not working for me.</p> <p>here's my quick implementation:</p> <p><strong>applicationContext.xml</strong></p> <pre><code><?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" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd"> <context:annotation-config />  <context:component-scan base-package="com.test"/> <context:property-placeholder location="file:///C:/dev/workspace/test-project/src/main/resources/appconfig.properties"/> </beans> </code></pre> <p><strong>TestConfig.java</strong></p> <pre><code>@Component public class TestConfig { @Value("${test.key1}") private String key1; public String getKey1() { return key1; } } </code></pre> <p><strong>src/main/resources/appconfig.properties</strong></p> <pre><code>test.key1=value test.key2=value </code></pre> <p>Starting up my tomcat, I see the following in my log:</p> <pre><code>00:11:41,985 [localhost-startStop-1] INFO PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer - Loading properties file from URL [file:/C:/dev/workspace/test-project/src/main/resources/appconfig.properties] </code></pre> <p>However, when I do getKey1(), I get "null".</p> <p>What am I missing?</p> <p>Question 2: If I use "classpath":</p> <pre><code><context:property-placeholder location="classpath:appconfig.properties"/> </code></pre> <p>Which directory is that referring to? root of WEB-INF/classes?</p>

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