title: setting a property in a spring bean outside the spring bean definintion
body: <p>I have a spring bean defined outside my control. I want to set a property in that spring bean, is that possible from spring XML?</p>
  
  <p>e.g.
  a.xml (not controlled by me):</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;bean id="a" class="A"/&gt;
  &lt;bean id="b" class="B"&gt;
      &lt;constructor-arg ref="a"/&gt;
  &lt;/bean&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>b.xml (controlled by me)</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;import resource="classpath:META-INF/a.xml"/&gt;
  &lt;bean id="c" class="C"/&gt;
  &lt;!-- here i want to set a property in bean a --&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>One option, but I dont' like it is to set the property programatically.
  I'm using spring 2.5 in java.</p>