In an applicationcontext.xml, is it possible to set a value which can be used later in SPEL expressions?
For example is there a way to do this?:
<setProperty name="foo" value="someval" />
<bean id="beanId" name="beanName" class="SomeClass">
<property name="someVal" value="blah_${foo}"/>
</bean>
The actual reason I want to do this is that I use statements to create entity managers which are used in many different application contexts. The problem is that the entity managers require a unique name which is used by Bitronix to create a local file which breaks if multiple unit tests run at the same time using the same name for that field. To set that unique name I currently have a separate properties file for each application context and import it to get a unique name from it.
Rather than doing that nonsense I'd rather just do this:
<setProperty name="uniqueName" value="someUniqueName" />
<import resource="classpath*:shared/db/fooDb.xml" />