How do you configure a Spring bean container to load a Java property file?

Question

How do you configure a Spring bean container (or application context) to load a Java property file?

JavaWorld article Smartly Load Your Properties explains how to load p

Answer 1

The Spring Framework Reference Documentation (2.5.x) gives two examples of how to load a property file into a bean container, one before the release of version 2.5 and a more concise way using the function that was introduced in version 2.5:

Before version 2.5:

After version 2.5:

Note that in order to use , you must declare the util namespace and schema location in the preamble at the top of your Spring XML configuration file: