Property Setting: Stream From URL
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="myInputStream" value="http://www.java2s.com"/> </bean> </beans> File: Main.java import java.io.InputStream; 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.getMyInputStream()); } } class PropertyEditorTestBean { private InputStream myInputStream; public InputStream getMyInputStream() { return myInputStream; } public void setMyInputStream(InputStream myInputStream) { this.myInputStream = myInputStream; } }