Best place to put my .poperties files for use with springs PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer?

Question

Hi, i have a properties folder and inside of ti contains my jdbc.properties file.

the problem is that i am unable to load it succesfuly as it always complains that it cannot locate the file.

i have the file currently sitting in the roo directopry fo WEB-INF. when i build and compile my spring mvc it does throw any exceptions but as soon as i load the beans from my code using new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext it fails and says it cannot locate my properties file??

here is how my beans look like:

<bean id="propertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"> 
        <property name="locations"> <list> <value>/properties/jdbc.properties</value> 
        </list> </property> </bean> 

<bean id="dataSource1" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource"> 
        <property name="driverClassName" value="${database.driver}" /> <property 
        name="url" value="${database.url}" /> <property name="username" value="${database.user}" 
        /> <property name="password" value="${database.password}" /> </bean>

here is a pic of my project structure at present:

Answer 1

You can put the properties files in root of classpath. And use like below.

<bean id="propertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"> 
        <property name="locations"> <list> <value>classpath:jdbc.properties</value> 
        </list> </property> </bean>