loading of properties into DispatcherServlet ..

[irus]

hi Folks,

when I'm trying to inject a bean with String Property it is not loading the property correctly. I have the following config ...

web.xml : 
<context-param>
		<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
		<param-value>
			/WEB-INF/classes/applicationContext.xml
	        </param-value>
	</context-param>
<listener>
		<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
	</listener>

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<servlet>
		<servlet-name>frontController</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
		<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>frontController</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/frontController/*</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>

frontController-servlet.xml : 
 	<bean id="search" class="com.web.action.Search">
	 	<property name="serviceUrl"><value>${ServletPath}?${ReportUnit}&amp;format=xls&amp;KEY=</value></property>		
 	</bean>

My applicationContext.xml has the following ..

applicationContext
<beans>
	<bean name="propertyPlaceholder" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
    	<property name="locations">
        	<list>
	        <value>classpath:Reports.properties</value>
        	</list>
	    </property>
	</bean>
</beans>

In the Reports.properties I've the following ...

Reports.properties 

ReportUnit=DetailsExportReport
ServletPath=/NWE/jasper

Into my bean I'm only getting "${ServletPath}?${ReportUnit}&format=xls&KEY=" and not "/NWE/jasper?DetailsExportReport&format=xls&KEY=" which is what I want ...

Does anyone know where am I going wrong?

[Marten Deinum]

It is all in the reference guide . Read chapter 3 about the container.

Bean(Factory)PostProcessor only post process beans in the same container they are defined in, not on child contexts. So in your case you also need to specify a PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer in your frontController-servlet.xml.