accessing properties file in jsp/jstl using spring

<spring:eval var="itemsPerPage" expression="@browsePageProperties.getProperty('itemsPerPage')" scope="request"/> 

where browsePageProperties is defined in (Application Conext Xml) root-context.xml like this : 

    <util:properties id="browsePageProperties" location="classpath:browsePage.properties"/>  

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