Spring – using static final fields (constants) for bean initialization

Question

Something like this (Spring 2.5)

<bean id="foo" class="Bar">
    <property name="myValue">
        <util:constant static-field="java.lang.Integer.MAX_VALUE"/>
    </property>
</bean>

Where util namespace is from xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"

But for Spring 3, it would be cleaner to use the @Value annotation and the expression language. Which looks like this:

public class Bar {
    @Value("T(java.lang.Integer).MAX_VALUE")
    private Integer myValue;
}