Fill Value To List
File: context.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd"> <beans> <bean id="collectionsExample" class="CollectionsBean"> <property name="theList"> <list> <value>red</value> <value>red</value> <value>blue</value> </list> </property> </bean> <bean id="curDate" class="java.util.GregorianCalendar"/> </beans> File: Main.java import java.util.List; import java.util.Map; import java.util.Properties; import java.util.Set; import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext; import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext; class Main { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("context.xml"); CollectionsBean example = (CollectionsBean) ctx.getBean("collectionsExample"); System.out.println(example.getTheList()); } } class CollectionsBean { private List theList; private Set theSet; private Map theMap; private Properties theProperties; public void setTheList(List theList) { this.theList = theList; } public List getTheList() { return theList; } public void setTheSet(Set theSet) { this.theSet = theSet; } public Set getTheSet() { return theSet; } public void setTheMap(Map theMap) { this.theMap = theMap; } public Map getTheMap() { return theMap; } public void setTheProperties(Properties theProperties) { this.theProperties = theProperties; } public Properties getTheProperties() { return theProperties; } }