I'm moving a legacy application (I seem to be doing that a lot recently) to Spring and injecting properties with @Value into Spring managed beans all over the place. And it doesn't work: public class SomeService{ @Value("#{the.org.namespace.someProperty}") private String someProperty; } Dots have apparently a special meaning, so this fails with a message that 'the' … Continue reading Spring @Value and resolving property names with dots