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

I know this is a really old question, but in case someone is looking for the newer way to do this, use the spring util namespace:

As described in the spring documentation.