You have two possibilities:

1. non-static setter for static property/field;
2. using org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean to invoke a static setter.

In the first option you have a bean with a regular setter but instead setting an instance property you set the static property/field.

publicvoid setTheProperty(Object value){
    foo.bar.Class.STATIC_VALUE = value;}

but in order to do this you need to have an instance of a bean that will expose this setter (its more like an workaround).

In the second case it would be done as follows:

<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean"><property name="staticMethod" value="foo.bar.Class.setTheProperty"/><property name="arguments"><list><ref bean="theProperty"/></list></property></bean>

On you case you will add a new setter on the Utils class:

publicstatic setDataBaseAttr(Properties p)

and in your context you will configure it with the approach exemplified above, more or less like:

<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean"><property name="staticMethod" value="foo.bar.Utils.setDataBaseAttr"/><property name="arguments"><list><ref bean="dataBaseAttr"/></list></property></bean>

publicclassSample{publicstaticString name;@PostConstructpublicvoid init(){
        name = privateName;}@Value("${my.name}")privateString privateName;publicString getPrivateName(){return privateName;}publicvoid setPrivateName(String privateName){this.privateName = privateName;}}