Application.java

package SpringEl;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class Application {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("spring-beans.xml");

		Customer obj = (Customer) context.getBean("customerBean");
		System.out.println(obj);
	}
}

Customer.java

package SpringEl;

public class Customer {

	private Item item;

	private String itemName;

	public Item getItem() {
		return item;
	}

	public void setItem(Item item) {
		this.item = item;
	}

	public String getItemName() {
		return itemName;
	}

	public void setItemName(String itemName) {
		this.itemName = itemName;
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "Customer [item=" + item + ", itemName=" + itemName + "]";
	}

}
  

Item.java

package SpringEl;

public class Item {

    private String name;

    private int qty;

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public int getQty() {
        return qty;
    }

    public void setQty(int qty) {
        this.qty = qty;
    }
}

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.stack.overflow</groupId>
  <artifactId>example</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>example</name>
  <description>example</description>
  <dependencies>
  	<dependency>
  		<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
  		<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
  		<version>4.0.6.RELEASE</version>
  	</dependency>
  	<dependency>
  		<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
  		<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
  		<version>4.0.6.RELEASE</version>
  	</dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

spring-beans.xml

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

    <bean id="itemBean" class="SpringEl.Item">
        <property name="name" value="itemA" />
        <property name="qty" value="10" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="customerBean" class="SpringEl.Customer">
        <property name="item" value="#{itemBean}" />
        <property name="itemName" value="#{itemBean.name}" />
    </bean>

</beans>