title: Maven - Referring for properties file in subfolder not working
body: <p>In my Maven project , I have a spring config file. It refers to a set of properties files. Property files are available under a config folder in src/main/resources. Spring config files are available under src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/. During installation, all these files are available under target/classes as per Maven standards.</p>
  
  <p>Now in spring config XML : if I refer to properties files as below its not working   </p>
  
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    <p>property name="location" value="classpath:test.properties" 
                           or<br>
        property name="location" value="classpath*:test.properties"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I am forced to provide the subfolder to actually refer to the necessary properties file. Something like this.</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>property name="location" value="classpath:<strong><em>config</em></strong>/test.properties"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Is this how Maven expects us to look for properties file? Please clarify and let me know what is the best way to do this.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks </p>