A Spring Resource[] property should assume that *.class exists, now it highlights [*.class] as not found. For example I want to get all classes that exists in the persistence package I can add the following: [classpath*:/abc/cde/**/persistence/*.class]. If I substitute the [.class] with [.java] I get no error, but it is not likely that the java file is available at runtime... A possible way to solve this is to check for the [.java] file if the patterns ends with [.class] .