Premise : i'm new to spring batch.
I'm trying to customize the spring batch admin but , till now, i'm not been able to let my classes read some properties from an external file . 
My jobs extract data from a third party database to print a report , therefore i need two datasource : one to gather the report information and one to store the job's status and metadata.
I've read the tutorial :  http://docs.spring.io/spring-batch-admin/reference/customization.html 
 and many other tutorials and the following post load external config file in spring batch admin .
Yet i'm not been able to start the application . 
It must run on Tomcat 6 .
 
this is a screen shoot of my project tree, adapted by the official example :
this is my configuration class :
    @Configuration
@EnableBatchProcessing
public class RegistroGiornalieroConfiguration extends DefaultBatchConfigurer {
    private final static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(RegistroGiornalieroConfiguration.class);
    private final static Date data = null;
    @Autowired
    public JobBuilderFactory jobFactory;
    @Autowired
    public StepBuilderFactory stepFactory;
    @Autowired
    VolumiPropertySource volumiPropertySource;
    @Value("${batch.jdbc.driver}")
    private String driverName; 
    /**
     * datasource di default, viene resitituito dall'annotazione Autowired
     * @return
     * @throws SQLException
     */
    @Bean(name="springBatchDatasource")
    @Primary
    public DataSource springBatchDatasource() throws SQLException {
        final DriverManagerDataSource dataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource();
        dataSource.setDriverClassName(driverName);//"com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
//      dataSource.setUrl(env.getProperty("springBatchUrl"));//"jdbc:mysql://localhost/spring_batch_annotations");
//      dataSource.setUsername(env.getProperty("springBatchUser"));//"root");
//      dataSource.setPassword(env.getProperty("springBatchPassword"));//"root");
        return dataSource;
    }
    /**
     * Datasource secondario, viene restituito da getDatasource
     * @return
     * @throws SQLException
     */
    @Bean(name="estarDatasource")
    public DataSource estarDatasource() throws SQLException {
        final DriverManagerDataSource dataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource();
        dataSource.setDriverClassName(driverName);//"com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
//      dataSource.setUrl(env.getProperty("url"));//"jdbc:mysql://localhost/spring_batch_annotations");
//      dataSource.setUsername(env.getProperty("user"));//"root");
//      dataSource.setPassword(env.getProperty("password"));//"root");
        return dataSource;
    }
//  @PostConstruct
//  public void init()
//  {
//      Properties p = volumiPropertySource.getIniProperties();
//      MutablePropertySources sources = env.getPropertySources();
//      sources.addFirst(new PropertiesPropertySource("volumi",p));
//      env.getActiveProfiles();
//  }
    @Bean
    @StepScope
    public JdbcCursorItemReader<RegistroGiornaliero> reader( 
            @Value("#{jobParameters[data]}")
            Date data)
        {
        System.out.println("reader");
//       select     protocol.nprotoc,protocol.dataprot,protocol.arrpar,protocol.numdoc,
//          protocol.datadoc,protocol.OGGETTO,protocol.ANNULLATO,protocol.USERINS as protuser,
//          protimg.DOCID,protimg.USERINS imguser ,protimg.PRINCIPALE,
//          assegna.livello,assegna.possesso,assegna.SEQUENZA,
//          organigramma.LIVELLO,organigramma.DESCRIZIONE,
//          protente.ente
//          from 
//         protocol left outer join protimg on protocol.NPROTOC = protimg.NPROTOC 
//         left outer join protente on protocol.NPROTOC = protente.NPROTOC
//         left outer join assegna on protocol.NPROTOC = assegna.NPROTOC
//         left outer join organigramma on assegna.LIVELLO = organigramma.LIVELLO
//          where 
//              protocol.dataprot = 20160616 and protocol.NPROTOC = '201600014709'
//          order by protocol.nprotoc,assegna.SEQUENZA;     
         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("select")
            .append(" protocol.nprotoc,protocol.dataprot,protocol.arrpar,protocol.numdoc,")
            .append(" protocol.datadoc,protocol.OGGETTO,protocol.ANNULLATO,protocol.USERINS as protuser,")
            .append(" protimg.DOCID,protimg.USERINS imguser ,protimg.PRINCIPALE,")
            .append(" assegna.possesso,assegna.SEQUENZA,")
            .append(" organigramma.LIVELLO,organigramma.DESCRIZIONE,")
            .append(" protente.ente ")
            .append(" from protocol left outer join protimg on protocol.NPROTOC = protimg.NPROTOC  ")
            .append(" left outer join protente on protocol.NPROTOC = protente.NPROTOC  ")
            .append(" left outer join assegna on protocol.NPROTOC = assegna.NPROTOC  ")
            .append(" left outer join organigramma on assegna.LIVELLO = organigramma.LIVELLO  ")
            .append(" where ")
            .append(" protocol.dataprot = ? ")
            .append(" order by protocol.nprotoc,assegna.SEQUENZA "); 
//      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("select")
//          .append(" protocol.nprotoc,protocol.dataprot,protocol.arrpar,protocol.numdoc,")
//          .append(" protocol.datadoc,protocol.OGGETTO,protocol.ANNULLATO,protocol.USERINS as protuser, ")
//          .append(" protimg.DOCID,protimg.USERINS imguser ,protimg.PRINCIPALE, ")
//          .append(" assegna.livello,assegna.possesso,assegna.SEQUENZA, ")
//          .append(" organigramma.LIVELLO as livelloOrg,organigramma.DESCRIZIONE, ")
//          .append(" protente.ente ")
//          .append(" from protocol,protimg,protente,assegna,operatori,organigramma ")
//          .append(" where ")
//          .append(" protocol.NPROTOC = protimg.NPROTOC and protocol.NPROTOC = assegna.NPROTOC ")
//          .append(" and protocol.NPROTOC = protente.NPROTOC and assegna.LIVELLO = organigramma.LIVELLO ")
//          .append(" and protocol.dataprot = ? ");
        JdbcCursorItemReader<RegistroGiornaliero> reader = new JdbcCursorItemReader<RegistroGiornaliero>();
        try {
            reader.setDataSource(estarDatasource());
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        reader.setPreparedStatementSetter(new ParameterSetter(data));
        reader.setSql(sb.toString());
        reader.setRowMapper(estarRowMapper());
        reader.setVerifyCursorPosition(false);
        return reader;
    }
    @Bean
    public RegistroGiornalieroProcessor processorGenerazioneRegistro() {
        return new RegistroGiornalieroProcessor();
    }
    @Bean
    public ItemWriter<RegistroGiornaliero> pdfwriter() {
        return new PDFItemWriter<RegistroGiornaliero>();
    }
    @Bean
    public JobExecutionListener listener() {
        return new JobCompletionNotificationListener();
    }
    @Bean
    public RegistroGiornalieroRowMapper estarRowMapper() {
        return new RegistroGiornalieroRowMapper();
    }
    @Bean 
    public Job generaRegistroGiornaliero()
    {
          return jobFactory
                    .get("generaRegistroGiornaliero")
                    .incrementer(new RunIdIncrementer())
                    .flow(leggiDocumentiProtocollo())
                    .end()
                    .build(); 
    }
    @Bean 
    public Step leggiDocumentiProtocollo()
    {
        return stepFactory.get("leggiDocumentiProtocollo")
                .<RegistroGiornaliero, RegistroGiornaliero> chunk(10)
                .reader(reader(data))
                .processor(processorGenerazioneRegistro())
                .writer(pdfwriter())
                .build();
    }
    @Override
    public JobRepository getJobRepository() {
        JobRepositoryFactoryBean factory = new JobRepositoryFactoryBean();
        // use the autowired data source
        try {
            factory.setDataSource(springBatchDatasource());
        } catch (SQLException e1) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e1.printStackTrace();
        }
        factory.setTransactionManager(getTransactionManager());
        try {
            factory.afterPropertiesSet();
            return factory.getObject();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            //e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }
}
this is my job configuration (registrogiornaliero.xml):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<beans  xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
        xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" 
        xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" 
        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-3.0.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd">        
    <context:annotation-config/>
    <context:component-scan base-package="it.infogroup.estav.registrogiornaliero"/>
</beans>
and finally this is my env.xml , as by stackoverflow post :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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.xsd">
    <!-- Use this to set additional properties on beans at run time -->
    <bean id="placeholderProperties"
        class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="locations">
            <list>
                <value>classpath:/org/springframework/batch/admin/bootstrap/batch.properties</value>
                <value>classpath:batch-default.properties</value>
                <!-- <value>classpath:batch-${ENVIRONMENT:hsql}.properties</value>-->
                <value>classpath:batch-${ENVIRONMENT:mysql}.properties</value>
                <!-- here we load properties from external config folder -->
                <value>file:${app.conf}</value>
             </list>
        </property>
        <property name="systemPropertiesModeName" value="SYSTEM_PROPERTIES_MODE_OVERRIDE" />
        <property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="false" />
        <property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="false" />
        <property name="order" value="1" />
    </bean>
</beans>
any help will be appreciated
 
    