Loading a property file into a bean property

[mercnboy3]

I cannot seem to find out how to do this anywhere. I basically have a bean with a java.util.Properties property and I want to load a properties file into it. Like so

<bean id="someBean" class="someClass">
  <property name="configuration">
    <bean class="some.spring.class.propertyloader">
      <property name='file' value='config.properties' />
    </bean>
  </property>
</bean>

[dejanp]

Take a look at PropertiesFactoryBean.

[mercnboy3]

thanks a lot! I was confused b/c of the factory bean implementation ( setting properties property to an object of type PropertiesFactoryBean seems strange if you do not realize what is going on ).

here is what I have and seems to work, is this the recommended way?

<property name="queries">
  <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean">
    <property name="location" value="classpath:com/domain/model/service/jdbc/sql-queries.properties" />
  </bean>
</property>

[karldmoore]

If you are using Spring 2 you can make this a little easier.
http://www.springframework.org/docs/...til-properties