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I'm using Spring to handle RMI calls to some remote server. It is straightforward to construct an application context and obtain the bean for remote invocations from within the client: ApplicationContext context = new ApplicationContext("classpath:context.xml"); MyService myService = (MyService ) context.getBean( "myService " ); However I don't see a simple way to pass properties into the configuration. For example if I want to determine the host name for the remote server at runtime within the client. I'd ideally have an entry in the Spring context like this: <bean id="myService" class="org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiProxyFactoryBean"> <property name="serviceUrl" value="rmi://${webServer.host}:80/MyService"/> <property name="serviceInterface" value="com.foo.MyService"/> </bean> and pass the properties to the context from the client as a parameter. I can use a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer in the context to substitute for these properties, but as far as I can tell this only works for properties read from a file. I have an implementation that addresses this (added as an answer) but I'm looking for a standard Spring implementation to avoid rolling my own. Is there another Spring configurer (or anything else) to help initialise the configuration or am I better off looking at java config to achieve this?

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