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= How do I use Spring Property Placeholder with Camel XML

We do *NOT* yet support the `$\{something\}` notation inside arbitrary
Camel XML. For example at the time of writing this is *NOT* supported
(due Spring limitations).

*IS NOT SUPPORTED*

[source,xml]
----
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       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-2.0.xsd
       http://activemq.apache.org/camel/schema/spring http://activemq.apache.org/camel/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd
    ">

  <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/>

  <camelContext xmlns="http://activemq.apache.org/camel/schema/spring">
    <route>
      <from uri="activemq:${someQueueName}"/>
      <to uri="mock:results"/>
    </route>
  </camelContext>

</beans>
----

However you can use the `<endpoint/>` element to define endpoints which
does support the property resolving which you can then refer to by name,
using the xref:components::ref-component.adoc[Ref] component as shown below (notice the `ref:`
in the URI):

*SUPPORTED*

[source,xml]
----
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       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-2.0.xsd
       http://activemq.apache.org/camel/schema/spring http://activemq.apache.org/camel/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd
    ">

  <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/>

  <camelContext xmlns="http://activemq.apache.org/camel/schema/spring">
    <endpoint id="input1" uri="activemq:${someQueueName}"/>

    <route>
      <from uri="ref:input1"/>
      <to uri="activemq:OutputQueue"/>
    </route>
  </camelContext>

</beans>
----

Camel does not yet fully support property placeholders as there is a
limitation in Spring. See JIRA
http://jira.springframework.org/browse/SPR-4466[SPR-4466]

== Bridge Spring and Camel property placeholders

From Camel 2.10 onwards you can bridge Spring and Camel property
placeholders, see xref:ROOT:using-propertyplaceholder.adoc[Using
PropertyPlaceholder] for more details.

Here is a trick that you can use to define the uri in a property file
using Spring injection and Camel endpoint:
http://cmoulliard.blogspot.com/2009/05/trick-to-pass-uri-declared-in-property.html.

From Camel 2.3 onwards there is a xref:components::properties-component.adoc[Properties]
component build in Camel core which allows you to use properties in the
same way as Spring property placeholders, and even more.