I want spring's <util:property-path path="..."/> to become simply path="..."

Hi,

I have recently discovered a great feature in Spring:

    <property name="propertyToSet">
        <util:property-path path="aBean.aProperty"/>
    </property>

This is much nicer in my opinion than

    <property name="propertyToSet">
        <bean factory-bean="aBean" factory-method="getAProperty"/>
    </property>

It is also more powerful because you can do things like

    <property name="propertyToSet">
        <util:property-path path="aBean.aProperty.aNestedProperty"/>
    </property>

which otherwise would have been awkward.

However I do want an improvement. I want a yet more concise syntax for this. Spring can already do this:

    <property name="aPropertyToSet" value="true"/>
    <property name="aPropertyToSet" ref="anotherBean"/>

So it would only be logical (and very-very nice!) if it could also do this:

    <property name="propertyToSet" path="aBean.aProperty"/>