Spring @Value annotation in @Controller class not evaluating to value inside properties file

It seems that the question has been already asked Spring 3.0.5 doesn't evaluate @Value annotation from properties

The difference between web app root and servlet application contexts is one of the top sources of confusion in Spring, see Difference between applicationContext.xml and spring-servlet.xml in Spring Framework

From @Value javadoc :

Note that actual processing of the @Value annotation is performed by a BeanPostProcessor

From Spring documentation:

BeanPostProcessor interfaces are scoped per-container. This is only relevant if you are using container hierarchies. If you define a BeanPostProcessor in one container, it will only do its work on the beans in that container. Beans that are defined in one container are not post-processed by a BeanPostProcessor in another container, even if both containers are part of the same hierarchy.

Yea I am having same issue with Spring 3. It doesn't seem to work inside Controllers. To fix the issue I created a another bean with @Service and injected that into the controller. It did work for me. Hope this would be helpful to someone as I spent all day to figure it out.

You can @Autowire Environment and then environment.getProperty("name"). See https://stackoverflow.com/a/15562319/632293

You need to use PropertySourcePlaceHolder if you are using @Value annotation because it can extract the value from a properties file. If you are using java config base you need to create a bean like this

@Bean
public static PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer propertyConfigInDev() {
    return new PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer();
}

Or if you are using xml based then declare the bean accordingly.