I am doing an application in springs with maven. i wrote all properties in app.properties file 

file structure is like this

```
                         src/main/resource

                             |_
                             |   templates
                             |        |_mytempaltefile.vm    
                             |_ app.properties         

```

i gave the path(absloute) in app.property 

app.properties file

```
template.base.path=D\:/SVN/trunk/tfbdirect/src/main/resources/templates

```

utilities-spring.xml

```
<bean id="velocityEngine"
    class="org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactoryBean">
    <property name="velocityProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="resource.loader">file</prop>
            <prop key="file.resource.loader.class">
                org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader
            </prop>
            <prop key="file.resource.loader.path">${template.base.path}</prop>
            <prop key="file.resource.loader.cache">false</prop>
        </props>
       </property>
</bean>

```

my class

```
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 import org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine;
 import org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineUtils;
 import com.providerpay.tfbdirect.service.mail.MailSenderService;

 public class LoginServiceImpl implements ILoginService{

/**
 * Injected through Spring IOC
 */
ILoginDAO loginDAO;
ClaimRuleProcessServiceImpl claimRuleProcessServiceImpl;
PlatformTransactionManager txmanager;

//IForgotPasswordDAO forgotPasswordDAO;

private VelocityEngine velocityEngine;

private String appURL;
private MailSenderService mailSenderService;

TFBLogger log = TFBLoggerFactory.getLogger(RuleServer.class);

public String getAppURL() {
    return appURL;
}

public void setAppURL(String appURL) {
    this.appURL = appURL;
}

public MailSenderService getMailSenderService() {
    return mailSenderService;
}

public VelocityEngine getVelocityEngine() {
    return velocityEngine;
}

public void setVelocityEngine(VelocityEngine velocityEngine) {
    this.velocityEngine = velocityEngine;
}

public void setMailSenderService(MailSenderService mailSenderService) {
    this.mailSenderService = mailSenderService;
}

public ILoginDAO getLoginDAO() {
    return loginDAO;
}
public void setLoginDAO(ILoginDAO loginDAO) {
    this.loginDAO = loginDAO;
}
public ClaimRuleProcessServiceImpl getClaimRuleProcessServiceImpl() {
    return claimRuleProcessServiceImpl;
}
public void setClaimRuleProcessServiceImpl(
        ClaimRuleProcessServiceImpl claimRuleProcessServiceImpl) {
    this.claimRuleProcessServiceImpl = claimRuleProcessServiceImpl;
}   
public void setTxmanager(PlatformTransactionManager txmanager) {
    this.txmanager = txmanager;
}

/**
 * Validates Login
 * @param loginView
 * @return
 */
public boolean isValidLogin(LoginView loginView) {

    /* create tx definition object */
    DefaultTransactionDefinition paramTransactionDefinition = new     DefaultTransactionDefinition();
    TransactionStatus status = txmanager.getTransaction(paramTransactionDefinition );
    boolean result = false;

    try{
        LoginEntity loginEntity = BeanMapper.INSTANCE.viewToEntityMapper(loginView);
        Feedback feedback = claimRuleProcessServiceImpl.validateClaimEligibility(loginEntity);
        log.info( "Rule executed was " +feedback.getAll());

        for (FeedbackMessage feedbackmessaage :feedback.getAll())
        {
            log.info("\n--------------");
            log.info(feedbackmessaage.getRuleCd());
            log.info(feedbackmessaage.getMessage());
            log.info(feedbackmessaage.getSeverity().getName());
            log.info("\n--------------");
        }

        result = loginDAO.isValidLogin(loginEntity);
        log.debug("result = {}", result);

        txmanager.commit(status);

    }catch(Exception e){
        txmanager.rollback(status);
        throw new TfbException("Error occured while validating login credentials");
    }

    return result; 
}

@Autowired
VelocityEngine velocityengine;
public boolean mailResetLink(LoginView loginView) {

    String toEmailAddress;
    LoginEntity loginEntity = BeanMapper.INSTANCE.viewToEntityMapper(loginView);

    /* getting user Email from DAO*/
    toEmailAddress = loginDAO.getEmailByUsername(loginEntity);

    if(toEmailAddress != null && toEmailAddress.trim().length() > 0)
    {
        Map<String, Object> model = new HashMap<String, Object>();
        model.put("user", loginEntity);
        model.put("appURL", appURL);
        String body = VelocityEngineUtils.mergeTemplateIntoString(velocityEngine, "emailTemplate.vm","UTF-8", model);

        mailSenderService.sendMail("from mail", toEmailAddress, "Password Reset Link",body);

    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

public boolean resetPassword(LoginView loginView) 
{

    LoginEntity loginEntity = BeanMapper.INSTANCE.viewToEntityMapper(loginView);

    return loginDAO.resetPassword(loginEntity);
}
}

```

every thing fine but i need to change the absolute path to relative path.. i tried many ways.

i tried like following

```
template.base.path=/templates/

```

but still getting below error .

ResourceManager : unable to find resource 'emailTemplate.vm' in any resource loader.

can any one help me..

Thanks in advance