title: How to load property file which is present in outside webapps folder Spring4.0?
body: <p>I am trying to load the property file</p>
  
  <p>Below is the line of code I have in spring.xml of 'org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet'</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;context:property-placeholder location="/var/opt/vmware/comeproperties/application.properties" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am always getting FileNotFoundException always.</p>
  
  <p>What I realized is that th application is always trying to look from the classpath after appending additiona '/'.</p>
  
  <p>Could you please let me know what is the best way to load the property file which is present outside the webapps.</p>