spring: set property of one bean by reading the property of another bean?

Question

Is it possible to set the property of one bean by reading the property of another bean? For instance, suppose I had:

class A {
   void setList(List list);
}
         


        

Answer 1

in addition to @Kevin's answer if you are using spring 3.0 it is possible to do this with the new spring expression language

spring 3.0 documentation