title: Spring Error in creating bean with name propertyPlaceholderConfigurer defined in Classpath
body: <p><em>Hi Experts</em></p>
  
  <p>We are loading the beans with xml files in class path using the ClassPathXmlApplicationContext. <strong>It finds and loads the xml files from classpath</strong> ,but in one of xml files which has propertyPlaceholderConfigurer  <strong>bean referring the property file from classpath</strong>. It throws the null pointer exception with unable to create the propertyPlaceholderConfigurer bean.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Not sure whether it reads the property file even though it is classpath as it can read other xml files?</strong>
  Any chance of property file having corrupted data?
  Any clues on what could be the issue ?</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error creating bean with name 'propertyPlaceholderConfigurer' defined in class path resource [ws.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
      at com.ibm.ejs.container.StatelessBeanO.initialize(StatelessBeanO.java:375)
      at com.ibm.ejs.container.BMStatelessBeanOFactory.create(BMStatelessBeanOFactory.java:45)
      at com.ibm.ejs.container.EJSHome.createBeanO(EJSHome.java:1031)
      at com.ibm.ejs.container.EJSHome.createBeanO(EJSHome.java:1141)
      at com.ibm.ejs.container.activator.UncachedActivationStrategy.atActivate(UncachedActivationStrategy.java:84)
      at com.ibm.ejs.container.activator.Activator.activateBean(Activator.java:599)
      at com.ibm.ejs.container.EJSContainer.preInvokeActivate(EJSContainer.java:3964)
      at com.ibm.ejs.container.EJSContainer.preInvoke(EJSContainer.java:3269)
      at com.ibm.websphere.scheduler.EJSRemoteStatelessMeFBatchHandler_fb00fe87.process(EJSRemoteStatelessMeFBatchHandler_fb00fe87.java:27)
      at com.ibm.websphere.scheduler._TaskHandler_Stub.process(_TaskHandler_Stub.java:269)
      at com.ibm.ws.scheduler.tasks.BeanTaskInfoWork.doWork(BeanTaskInfoWork.java:126)
      at com.ibm.ws.scheduler.AlarmListener.executeTaskWithNotification(AlarmListener.java:796)
      at com.ibm.ws.scheduler.AlarmListener.access$700(AlarmListener.java:121)
      at com.ibm.ws.scheduler.AlarmListener$TaskWork.doWork(AlarmListener.java:427)
      at com.ibm.ws.scheduler.AlarmListener$TaskWork.run(AlarmListener.java:213)
      at com.ibm.ws.asynchbeans.J2EEContext.run(J2EEContext.java:782)
      at com.ibm.ws.asynchbeans.ExecutionContextImpl.go(ExecutionContextImpl.java:86)
      at com.ibm.ws.scheduler.AlarmListener.fireTask(AlarmListener.java:1401)
      at com.ibm.ws.scheduler.AlarmListener.fired(AlarmListener.java:1319)
      at com.ibm.ws.asynchbeans.AlarmImpl.callListenerMethod(AlarmImpl.java:340)
      at com.ibm.ws.asynchbeans.timer.GenericTimer.run(GenericTimer.java:216)
      at com.ibm.ws.asynchbeans.J2EEContext.run(J2EEContext.java:1150)
      at com.ibm.ws.asynchbeans.AlarmImpl.runListenerAsCJWork(AlarmImpl.java:175)
      at com.ibm.ws.asynchbeans.am._Alarm.fireAlarm(_Alarm.java:333)
      at com.ibm.ws.asynchbeans.am._Alarm.run(_Alarm.java:230)
      at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1550)
  Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'propertyPlaceholderConfigurer' defined in class path resource [ws.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:478)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:224)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:380)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:264)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:217)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:261)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:185)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:164)
      at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:516)
      at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:363)
      at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.&lt;init&gt;(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139)
      at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.&lt;init&gt;(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:93)
  </code></pre>