Load Properties in Spring MVC

This is a really trivial case, but I have to cover it, because you never know when you'll need it.

We have our application and we need to load a Properties file and use it, specifically in one of your Controllers, just like this...

I know! When we say spring + properties files, everybody think on this case (don't you?): <!-- Properties file certain specific App Stuff --> <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:my-application.properties"/> <!-- Creates reCaptcha Instance --> <bean id="reCaptcha" class="net.tanesha.recaptcha.ReCaptchaImpl"> <property name="privateKey" value="${recaptcha.private.key}" /> <property name="publicKey" value="${recaptcha.public.key}" /> <property name="includeNoscript" value="false" /> </bean>
But this is not the case I want to cover right now, because the one I want to cover is this one:

String value = (String)properties.get(key);

@Controller @RequestMapping(value = "/sitexfer/*") public class SiteXrefController extends BaseCustomController { private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(SiteXrefController.class); @Autowired private HttpClient httpClient; @Autowired @Qualifier("SiteXferProperties") private Properties properties; ... private String executeTest(final String serverType, final String instance, final Enumeration<String> headerNames, final HttpServletRequest request){ log.debug("Testing=" + instance + ", serverType=" + serverType); log.debug("Additional Params: " + headerNames); String result = ""; String url = (String)properties.get(serverType+"."+instance); ... return result; } .... } Ahhhh! That's what I meant :D

How can I do that? Simple, trust in Spring! (may the Spring be with you :P ) By using Util Schema <util:properties id="SiteXferProperties" location="classpath:sitexfer-application.properties"/> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd"> <util:properties id="SiteXferProperties" location="classpath:sitexfer-application.properties"/> <context:annotation-config/> <context:component-scan base-package="com.bofa.sitexfer.web.controller"/> </beans>

Piece of cake
Pan comido