From the currently posted content, there is no 'file:' and the exception is 'Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource ', that is why I thought the problem was caused by it.
You have a mixture of Spring 2.5.6 and Spring 3.0 in there. If you add an explicit dependency on spring-context and spring-aop I think it will work. (The sample project is fixed in trunk by the way, it just didn't make it to STS yet.)
Dave,
It worked after adding explicit dependency. I did not pay attention to the indirect dependency. I just checked spring-core and spring-beans versions and thought everything was OK. I was looking more at job initialization and job config files. Thanks for pointing out. I can move forward now.
Dave,
Is there any examples for using late-binding, especially for files. Maybe I missed something, but I didn't find a real helpful example. I also spent a lot of time to make it work for me.