ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource file access

If in a config file I give ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource

Code:

---

<property name="basenames">
 <list>
    <value>file&#58;WEB-INF/conf/resource/core_error</value>
                               
....

---

Shouldn't it find the file in the file system (given that I'm deploying an exploded ear and its included exploded wars)?

Instead I get this:
File [C:\bea\user_projects\domains\mydomain\WEB-INF\conf\resource\core_error.properties] does not exist

Which indicates the file path is missing the war path.

Does not seem to be a Spring code problem, but looking for some ideas on what to look at next. I'm currently re-reading the fun J2EE docs and the app server specific stuff for some clues.