How to assign bean's property an Enum value in Spring config file?

Question

I have a standalone enum type defined, something like this:

package my.pkg.types;

public enum MyEnumType {
    TYPE1,
    TYPE2
}

Now, I w

Answer 1

Use the value child element instead of the value attribute and specify the Enum class name:

    ALIEN

The advantage of this approach over just writing value="ALIEN" is that it also works if Spring can't infer the actual type of the enum from the property (e.g. the property's declared type is an interface)._{Adapted from araqnid's comment.}