Spring Environment.getProperty does not resolve a value that can be resolved via @Value

I am able to resolve my variables using @Value annotation but not via autowired Environment or WebApplicationContext.getEnvironment (which are both the same).

Spring version: 6.2.0

This is my web.xml snippet:

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>app</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>/WEB-INF/app-context.xml</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

Snippet to my app-context.xml

<context:property-placeholder location="WEB-INF/application.properties" />

My application.properties

config.path=settings/

Snippet of my Component code

    @Autowired
    private WebApplicationContext applicationContext;

    @Autowired
    Environment environment;

    @Value("${config.path:conf/}")
    private String configPath;

    public test() {
        log.info("configPath: {}", configPath); // this returns settings/
        log.info("environment: {}", environment.getProperty("config.path")); // this returns null
        log.info("environment: {}", applicationContext.getEnvironment.getProperty("config.path")); // this returns null too
    }

**Comment From: mdeinum**

Which is as expected. The `context:property-placeholder` doesn't add a `PropertySource` to the `Environment`., instead if loads the properties creates its own representation and also uses the `Environment` as another source for properties and resolution. So it will only resolve with `@Value` not manually through the `Environment`. 

See also [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/21106326/2696260) on StackOverflow for more details. 

**Comment From: kokhoor**

Thanks @mdeinum, I added code below to the afterPropertiesSet  method of my WebMvcConfigurer, but notice that I need to have minimal autowiring in this file to ensure the code runs early before a lookup occurs:

    var resource = new InputStreamResource(appContext.getServletContext()
            .getResourceAsStream("WEB-INF/application.properties"));
    var properties = new Properties();
    PropertiesLoaderUtils.fillProperties(properties, resource);
    ((StandardServletEnvironment) appContext.getEnvironment()).getPropertySources().addLast(new PropertiesPropertySource("custom", properties));

```