protected Object createInstance() throws IOException 
{
		Map resourceMap = new HashMap();
		Properties props = mergeProperties();
		for (Enumeration en = props.propertyNames(); en.hasMoreElements();) {
			String key = (String) en.nextElement();
			String location = props.getProperty(key);
			resourceMap.put(key, getResource(location));
		}
		return resourceMap;
}

Create the Map instance, populated with keys and Resource values.

 public Class getObjectType() 
{
		return Map.class;
}

 protected Resource getResource(String location) 
{
		return this.resourceLoader.getResource(this.resourceBasePath + location);
}

Fetch the Resource handle for the given location, prepeding the resource base path.

 public  void setResourceBasePath(String resourceBasePath) 
{
	                    	 
		this.resourceBasePath = (resourceBasePath != null ? resourceBasePath : "");
}

Set a base path to prepend to each resource location value in the properties file.

E.g.: resourceBasePath="/images", value="/test.gif" -> location="/images/test.gif"

 public  void setResourceLoader(ResourceLoader resourceLoader) 
{
		this.resourceLoader = (resourceLoader != null ? resourceLoader : new DefaultResourceLoader());
}