title: Loading external properties file in spring?
body: <p>I have below spring configuration. I am using spring 3 and windows OS.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"&gt;
    &lt;property name="locations"&gt;
      &lt;list&gt;
        &lt;value&gt;file:/extprops/conf/usercred.properties&lt;/value&gt;
      &lt;/list&gt;
    &lt;/property&gt;
    &lt;property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="true"/&gt;
  &lt;/bean&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In above config, am trying to load external properties file <code>file:/extprops/conf/usercred.properties</code> and it is working. Here I did not specify the drive location in which the properties file resides. Do i need to specify the drive info in path like <code>C</code> or <code>D</code> drive ? Do i need to keep App server and properties file in the same drive ? </p>