My problem is as follows:

I have server.properties for different environments. The path to those properties is provided trough a system property called propertyPath. How can I instruct my applicationContext.xml to load the properties with the given propertyPath system property without some ugly MethodInvokingBean which calls System.getProperty('');

My applicationContext.xml

<bean id="systemPropertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="systemPropertiesModeName" value="SYSTEM_PROPERTIES_MODE_OVERRIDE"/>
        <property name="placeholderPrefix" value="sys{"/>
        <property name="properties">
            <props>
                <prop key="propertyPath">/default/path/to/server.properties</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>


    <bean id="propertyResource" class="org.springframework.core.io.FileSystemResource" dependency-check="all" depends-on="systemPropertyConfigurer">
        <constructor-arg value="sys{propertyPath}"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="serviceProperties" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean">
        <property name="location" ref="propertyResource"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="propertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="location" ref="propertyResource"/>
        <property name="placeholderPrefix" value="prop{"/>

        <property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="true"/>
        <property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="false"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
         <property name="jndiName" value="prop{datasource.name}"/>
    </bean>

with this configuration the propertyResource alsways complains about

java.io.FileNotFoundException: sys{propertyPath} (The system cannot find the file specified)

Any suggestions? ;-) Thanks gabe