java - How to programmatically create bean definition with injected properties?

Question

I want to programmatically add a bean definition to an application context, but some properties of that definition are other beans from that context (I know their names). How can I do this so that those properties will be injected?

For example:

GenericBeanDefinition beanDef = new GenericBeanDefinition();
beanDef.setBeanClass(beanClass);

MutablePropertyValues values = new MutablePropertyValues();
values.addPropertyValue("intProperty", 10);
values.addPropertyValue("stringProperty", "Hello, world");
values.addPropertyValue("beanProperty", /* What should be here? */);

beanDef.setPropertyValues(values);

I'm using Spring 3.0.

Answer 1

Use RuntimeBeanReference:

values.addPropertyValue("beanProperty", new RuntimeBeanReference("beanName"));