Full path as a bean property in Spring

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

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