Download multiple property files with <util: properties> in spring 3

Question

I want to upload multiple property files using the <util:properties> in a spring 3 application. I searched on blogs but cannot get the correct path for this.

Hope someone gives me an answer to solve this problem.

Answer 1

My decision

 <context:property-placeholder location="classpath*:*.properties,file:/some/other/path/*.properties" /> 

Answer 2

In fact, <util:properties> is just a convenient tag for org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean . And PropertiesFactoryBean supports multiple locations.

Thus, you can create a bean using Properties as follows:

  <bean id="myProps" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean"> <property name="locations"> <list> <value>classpath:myprops-common.properties</value> <value>classpath:myprops-override.properties</value> <value>classpath:some-more-props-here.properties</value> </list> </property> </bean> 

Answer 3

util: properties seem to support only 1 property file ( link ). You might want to use the configuration suggested by @peperg.