Spring - set a property only if the value is not null

Question

When using Spring, is it possible to set a property only if the value passed is not null?

Example:

Answer 1

For solve your problem, you have to use SEL(Spring Expression Language). By this feature (added in SPring 3.0) you can such as other dynamic language writing your condition. For your context, answer is:

for more information see(this tutorial says what use SEL in context file): http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.5.RELEASE/reference/expressions.html