Property Setting: Class type
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="testBean" class="PropertyEditorTestBean"> <property name="myClass" value="java.util.Collection"/> </bean> </beans> File: Main.java import java.math.BigDecimal; import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory; import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory; import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { BeanFactory beanFactory = new XmlBeanFactory(new ClassPathResource("context.xml")); PropertyEditorTestBean testBean = (PropertyEditorTestBean) beanFactory.getBean("testBean"); System.out.println(testBean.getMyClass()); } } class PropertyEditorTestBean { private Class myClass; public Class getMyClass() { return myClass; } public void setMyClass(Class myClass) { this.myClass = myClass; } }