How to extend spring by configuring spring xml

Question

In a Spring 4 application, we are extending PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer to do some custom task during resolving properties.

To reg

Answer 1

You can very well use a combination of both Spring based xml and java based config in your spring application.

You have to use

@ImportResource({"classpath:sampleapp.xml"})

along with

@Configuration

Look at the sample post below which explains it:

Mixing xml and java config with spring

Answer 2

I had the same problem, my problem was fixed simply with placing the bean of my class in my Springbeans.xml file like below:

<beans:bean class="MyPropertyConfigurer"/>