Spring JavaConfig for java.util.Properties field

Question

Can you please tell me how to use Spring Javaconfig to directly load/autowire a properties file to a java.util.Properties field?

Thanks!

Later edit - st

Answer 1

There is also this approach for injecting properties directly using xml configurations. The context xml has this

and the java class just uses

@javax.annotation.Resource
private Properties myProps;

Voila!! it loads. Spring uses the 'id' attribute in xml to bind to the name of variable in your code.