Full path as a bean property in Spring

java, spring

Solution

By reference (Table 4.1), you should probably use a file system resource path:

<property name="location" value="file:/path/to/file.xml" />

Problem

Say, I have the following bean in Spring context: ``` <bean class="some.class.BlabBlahBlah"> <property name="location" value="classpath:somefile.xml"/> </bean> ``` Currently `somefile.xml` is placed in the `src/main/java`, but I'd like to place it somewhere in the file system. Is there a way to do that? I tried to set full path instead of this `classpath:` but it didn't work. Thanks in advance.

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