Fluent Bean Definition in Spring

app-context.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:sg="http://www.stuartgunter.org/schema/spring"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
                           http://www.stuartgunter.org/schema/spring http://www.stuartgunter.org/schema/spring/spring.xsd">

    <sg:builder-factory id="myBean"
                        builder-class="org.joda.time.DateTime"
                        build-method="toDateTime">
        <sg:with name="year" value="2012"/>
        <sg:with name="monthOfYear" value="12"/>
        <sg:with name="dayOfMonth" ref="1"/>
        <sg:with name="hourOfDay" value="6"/>
    </sg:builder-factory>
</beans>

AppConfig.java

import org.joda.time.DateTime;

@Configuration
public class AppConfig {
  @Bean
  public DateTime myFluentDate() {
      return new DateTime()
        .withYear(2012)
        .withMonthOfYear(12)
        .withDayOfMonth(1)
        .withHourOfDay(6);
  }
}

pom.xml

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.stuartgunter</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>