Spring - How to inject List/ Map using bean? We have a class Country.java with two instance variables city and president. We will set those values using applicationContext.xml.

applicationContext.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

	<bean id="country" class="com.javaxp.Country">
		<property name="city" ref="CityMap"></property>
		<property name="president" ref="PresidentList"></property>
	</bean>

	<bean id="CityMap" class="java.util.HashMap">
		<constructor-arg>
			<map>
				<entry key="China" value="Beijing" />
				<entry key="India" value="Delhi" />
				<entry key="United States" value="Washington" />
				<entry key="United Kingdom" value="London" />
			</map>
		</constructor-arg>
	</bean>

	<bean id="PresidentList" class="java.util.ArrayList">
		<constructor-arg>
			<list>
				<value>Hu Jintao</value>
				<value>Pranab Mukherjee</value>
				<value>Barack Obama</value>
				<value>David Cameron</value>
			</list>
		</constructor-arg>
	</bean>

</beans>