Could not resolve placeholder in string value

I am trying to use properties from a `.properties` file, but it doesn't seem to work. Here is my code: ``` @Service("ServiceFTP") @Transactional public class ServiceFTPImpl implements ServiceFTP { @Value("${project.ftp.adresse}") private String adresse; @Value("${project.ftp.login}") private String compte; @Value("${project.ftp.password}") private String motDePasse; @Value("${project.ftp.root}") private String ROOT; // [...] } ``` This class uses `@Value` annotations to get the properties. It is also declared as a Spring Service and is linked to my `infraContext.xml` file : ``` <?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" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd"> <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:context-core.properties"/> <!-- [...]--> </beans> ``` Using `context:property-placeholder`, I link this file to my `context-core.properties` file : ``` project.ftp.adresse = localhost project.ftp.login = anonymous project.ftp.password = project.ftp.root = /anonymous/ ``` This does make sense, right ? But when I try to launch my project, Tomcat throw this exception: ``` ERROR [context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext()] Context initialization failed org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'ServiceFTP': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private java.lang.String project.sins.service.impl.ServiceFTPImpl.adresse; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'project.ftp.adresse' in string value "${project.ftp.adresse}" at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:287) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1106) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:517) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:294) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:225) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:607) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:925) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:472) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:388) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:293) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:111) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4887) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5381) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:657) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1636) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private java.lang.String project.sins.service.impl.ServiceFTPImpl.adresse; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'project.ftp.adresse' in string value "${project.ftp.adresse}" at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:513) at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:92) at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:284) ... 27 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'project.ftp.adresse' in string value "${project.ftp.adresse}" at org.springframework.util.PropertyPlaceholderHelper.parseStringValue(PropertyPlaceholderHelper.java:173) at org.springframework.util.PropertyPlaceholderHelper.replacePlaceholders(PropertyPlaceholderHelper.java:125) at org.springframework.core.env.AbstractPropertyResolver.doResolvePlaceholders(AbstractPropertyResolver.java:151) at org.springframework.core.env.AbstractPropertyResolver.resolveRequiredPlaceholders(AbstractPropertyResolver.java:142) at org.springframework.context.support.PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer$2.resolveStringValue(PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer.java:169) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.resolveEmbeddedValue(AbstractBeanFactory.java:748) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:740) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:730) at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:485) ... 29 more ``` Or, in short: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'project.ftp.adresse' in string value "${project.ftp.adresse}" Edit: Here is my web.xml : ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="sins" version="2.5"> <display-name>Project</display-name> <listener> <listener-class>org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-class> </listener> <context-param> <param-name>log4jExposeWebAppRoot</param-name> <param-value>false</param-value> </context-param> <filter> <filter-name>ExpiresFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.ExpiresFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>ExpiresByType text/html</param-name> <param-value>now plus 0 seconds</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>ExpiresByType application/json</param-name> <param-value>now plus 0 seconds</param-value> </init-param> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>ExpiresFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher> </filter-mapping> <filter> <filter-name>EncodingFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>encoding</param-name> <param-value>UTF-8</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>forceEncoding</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </init-param> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>EncodingFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> <filter> <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name> <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> <filter> <filter-name>Spring OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-name> <filter-class> org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter </filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>Spring OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> <filter> <filter-name>struts2</filter-name> <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>struts2</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> <listener> <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class> </listener> <listener> <listener-class>org.apache.struts2.tiles.StrutsTilesListener</listener-class> </listener> <context-param> <param-name> org.apache.tiles.impl.BasicTilesContainer.DEFINITIONS_CONFIG </param-name> <param-value> /WEB-INF/tiles/user.xml </param-value> </context-param> <resource-ref> <res-ref-name>jdbc/si_nsg</res-ref-name> <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> <res-auth>Container</res-auth> </resource-ref> <session-config> <session-timeout>60</session-timeout> </session-config> </web-app> ``` My infraContext.xml is imported in another .xml file named applicationContext.xml : ``` <?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:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-3.1.xsd"> <bean class="org.springframework.context.support.PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer"> <property name="environment"> <bean class="org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment"/> </property> </bean> <import resource="classpath:securityContext.xml"/> [...] <import resource="classpath:project/sins/persistenceContext.xml"/> <import resource="classpath:project/sins/infraContext.xml"/> </beans> ``` I am obviously missing something, but I can't figure out what. Please let me know if you need more details, as it is my first question here. I'll try to answer as soon as I can.