Access properties file programatically with Spring?

Question

We use the code below to inject Spring beans with properties from a properties file.

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

<bean id="blah" class="abc">
    <property name="path" value="${the.path}"/>
</bean>

Is there a way we can access the properties programatically? I'm trying to do some code without dependency injection. So I'd like to just have some code like this:

PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer props = new PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer();
props.load("classpath:/my.properties");
props.get("path");

Answer 1

I have done this and it has worked.

Properties props = PropertiesLoaderUtils.loadAllProperties("my.properties");
PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer props2 = new PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer();
props2.setProperties(props);

That should work.

Answer 2

How about PropertiesLoaderUtils?

Resource resource = new ClasspathResource("/my.properties");
Properties props = PropertiesLoaderUtils.loadProperties(resource);