title: Web App with Spring - Using properties in Service
body: <p>I want to load few values from a proporties files that is in the /WEB-INF/ folder.
  I usually use this in my xml file when I develop a software using WebServices</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;util:properties id="configProperties" location="classpath:/WEB-INF/config.properties" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and then access to the value in Java using:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@Value("#{configProperties['clientURL']}")
  private String clientURL;
  
  public String urlClient() {
      return clientURL;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it doesn't work on my webapp, it's always returning the <code>null</code> value.</p>