configuring variable with xml

[Titanum]

Hi all, I'm trying to configure a variable with spring, in my spring-servlet.xml i wrote:

	<import resource="classpath:spring-context.xml" />

in the file spring-context.xml i wrote:

<?xml  version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
	xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
						http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd
						http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">

	<context:property-placeholder properties-ref="defaultProperties" />
	
	<util:properties id="defaultProperties">
		<prop key="address">this is an address</prop>
	</util:properties>
</beans>

finally in my class i wrote:

        @Autowired
	@Value(value = "${address}")
	private String address;

Any suggestion? thanks

[Marten Deinum]

And where is your class defined? Is see no component scanning and no bean definition so your beanisn't known by spring and as such will not be injected.