Blind Squirrel

So I found a scenario today where we had two different PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer beans declared in two separate XML files. Unfortunately, the second property file wasn’t getting loaded, so we would get errors about Spring being unable to resolve particular properties.

I found this great post summarizing the solution:

http://dotal.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/mulitple-propertyplaceholderconfigurer-configurations/