Importing Bean defintions from absolute path

[ErikHellman]

I need to be able to import an XML file with bean defintions (using <import...) from an absolute path outside the classpath. Is this possible, and if so, how do I do that?

thanks!

[Andrei Stefan]

Try like this:

<import resource="file:your_file_path.xml"/>

[garrmark]

For windows paths you can use the following file: url sytax

file:///c:/path/to/your/file.xml