Spring @Value escape colon(:) in default value
Update: For spring 4.2 and higher, no single quotes are needed. Spring will see the first colon as special, and use all the rest as a single string value.
For spring 4.2 and higher,
@Value("${prop.url:http://myurl.com}")
For the previous versions, I believe single quotes will do the trick:
@Value("${prop.url:'http://myurl.com'}")