Spring Property file configuration Problem

[sandeep lokhande]

Hello I am building spring web application,
in that i want to add some field in JSP file,
Which can be populated by Property file.

My property file is,
employee.properties

employee.empname=Hello, World!
employee.empno=Hello, Spring!   

I have crerated beans as,
in application-context,

   
    <bean id="employee"
          class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
          p:location="/WEB-INF/employee.properties" />

    <bean id="employeeDetails"
          class="com.webaccess.cms.utility.EmployeeDetails"
          p:empno="${employee.empname}"
          p:empname="${employee.empno}"/>

And i have bean,
EmployeeDetails.java

    
package com.webaccess.cms.utility;

/**
 *
 * @author Owner
 */
public class EmployeeDetails {
    String empno="";
    String empname="";

    public String getEmpname() {
        return empname;
    }

    public void setEmpname(String empname) {
        this.empname = empname;
    }

    public String getEmpno() {
        return empno;
    }

    public void setEmpno(String empno) {
        this.empno = empno;
    }
}

And TestReadProperty Class as,

    
package com.webaccess.cms.utility;

/**
 *
 * @author Owner
 */
public class TestReadProperty {
    public EmployeeDetails holder =null;

    public void setHolder(EmployeeDetails holder) {
        this.holder = holder;
    }
}

Ana Error i get is,
SEVERE: Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Error registering bean with name 'employeeDetails' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Could not resolve placeholder 'employee.empno'

So could not deploy project.

Please help me out,
Thank you in advance.

[David Newton]

(Caveat: I could be remembering this incorrectly.)

I thought property files had to be on the classpath.

[sandeep lokhande]

I dont know,
This is what i learned from some tutorials.
Where should i add Classpath? :(

[Vivek K Singh]

try using the classpath in the location, something like :

<property name="location">
    <value>classpath:employee.properties</value>
</property>

The files under directory WEB-INF should be added, If not try the whole path as "classpath:/WEB-INF/employee.properties"

[David Newton]

WEB-INF isn't on the classpath, though.