Spring MVC Demo - Read country options from properties file

spring-mvc-demo-servlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
            xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" 
            xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" 
            xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util" 
            xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
            xsi:schemaLocation="
                http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans     
                http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd     
                http://www.springframework.org/schema/context     
                http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd     
                http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc         
                http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd 
                http://www.springframework.org/schema/util     
                http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">
                               
	<!-- Step 3: Add support for component scanning -->
	<context:component-scan base-package="com.luv2code.springdemo" />

	<!-- Step 4: Add support for conversion, formatting and validation support -->
	<mvc:annotation-driven/>

	<!-- Step 5: Define Spring MVC view resolver -->
	<bean
		class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
		<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/view/" />
		<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
	</bean>


	<util:properties id="countryOptions" location="classpath:../countries.properties" />

</beans>