Error while Trying to keep a list of message properties file in spring

I tried to create Message source based on the tutorials in java brains, I ran into a problem while trying to put the option to have more than one message properties file an error was produced, the error is given below ``` Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'messageSource' defined in class path resource [spring.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.ConversionNotSupportedException: Failed to convert property value of type 'java.util.ArrayList' to required type 'java.lang.String' for property 'basename'; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot convert value of type [java.util.ArrayList] to required type [java.lang.String] for property 'basename': no matching editors or conversion strategy found at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:527) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:293) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:196) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.initMessageSource(AbstractApplicationContext.java:755) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:413) at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139) at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83) at test.app.main(app.java:20) Caused by: org.springframework.beans.ConversionNotSupportedException: Failed to convert property value of type 'java.util.ArrayList' to required type 'java.lang.String' for property 'basename'; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot convert value of type [java.util.ArrayList] to required type [java.lang.String] for property 'basename': no matching editors or conversion strategy found at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.convertIfNecessary(BeanWrapperImpl.java:481) at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.convertForProperty(BeanWrapperImpl.java:518) at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.convertForProperty(BeanWrapperImpl.java:512) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.convertForProperty(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1371) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1330) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1086) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:517) ... 10 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot convert value of type [java.util.ArrayList] to required type [java.lang.String] for property 'basename': no matching editors or conversion strategy found at org.springframework.beans.TypeConverterDelegate.convertIfNecessary(TypeConverterDelegate.java:233) at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.convertIfNecessary(BeanWrapperImpl.java:466) ``` The spring.xml file is given below ``` <?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:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"> <bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource"> <property name="basename"> <list> <value>mymessages</value> </list> </property> </bean> <context:annotation-config/> <context:component-scan base-package="test"/> ``` When i removed the list tag from the above code the i was able to run without exception. the void main is given below. ``` public static void main(String args[]) { ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("spring.xml"); System.out.println(context.getMessage("greeting", null, "hiiiii", null)); } ``` I have created a file mymessages.prperties with on key value pair that is greeting. Please help me find what i did wrong in this.