How to declare a list of all values in an enum in Java Spring -

i want declare array/list in spring xml contains values of enum.

let's have enum in java:

public enum codes {     aaa,     bbb,     ccc; } 

i in spring xml like

<util:list id="enumvalues" values="#{codes.values()}"/ 

how can it? i've tried numerous combinations using el , util:list facory-methods etc nothing seems work.

i ended doing this:

<bean class="codes" factory-method="values"/> 

and reason works. bean won't of type codes codes[].