Reading properties from a file

[faenschi]

hi all

i try to read properties from a file. my configuration looks like that

<context:property-placeholder  location="classpath*:whitelists.properties" ignore-resource-not-found="false" /> 

then i try to set the value with the @value annotation:

@Value("${email.exclude}")
private String emailWhitelist; 

but i get the following error:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'email.exclude'
    at org.springframework.util.PropertyPlaceholderHelper.parseStringValue(PropertyPlaceholderHelper.java:173)
    at org.springframework.util.PropertyPlaceholderHelper.replacePlaceholders(PropertyPlaceholderHelper.java:125) 

the property is defined in whitelists.properties:

email.exclude=test@test.ch 

so what am i doing wrong?

regards
angela

[sumlight]

I tested your code, it works just fine.

[faenschi]

i had to change the location because the file was locatet in src/main/webapp/WEB-INF:

<contextroperty-placeholder location="WEB-INF/whitelists.properties" />