How to use org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer to load a properties file out of a custom module in JBoss EAP 6

Issue

• We have an example.properties file in a jar, placed as a custom module. Our application is in an EAR with this entry added to the jboss-deployment-structure.xml

            <module name="example" export="true" />

One part of the application uses the following class to replace placeholders and uses the example.properties entries to do it. Configured like so:

  <bean id="examplePropertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
    <property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="false" />
    <property name="location" value="com/jboss/examples/example.properties" />
  </bean>

However, we get the following exception when it tries to find that file:

Exception in Initializing Spring Beans
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanInitializationException: Could not load properties; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [com/jboss/examples/example.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist

How can we make the example.properties file visible to this spring class?