How can I inject a Class of an object, not an object itself - spring

Question

I'm trying to inject a list of Class. I want a list of classes, not objects.
My class looks like this:
public class CodeServiceImpl{
private List<Class<?>> codeList;
// getter and setter
My spring configuration file (I'm not using annotations but xml) is
<bean id="myCodeServiceImpl" class = "net.croz.service.CodeServiceImpl">
<property name="codeList">
<list>
<ref bean="myAddress"/>
<ref bean="myCity"/>
<ref bean="myCountry"/>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="myAddress" class="java.lang.Class" factory-method="forName">
<constructor-arg value="net.croz.model.Address"/>
</bean>
<bean id="myCity" class="java.lang.Class" factory-method="forName">
<constructor-arg value="net.croz.model.City"/>
</bean>
<bean id="myCountry" class="java.lang.Class" factory-method="forName">
<constructor-arg value="net.croz.model.Country"/>
</bean>
But the list codeList isn't being populated. It ends up being a null object. Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

Actually it works as is:
<bean class="com.my.proj.Foo">
<constructor-arg value="java.lang.String, org.springframework.util.StringUtils, byte[]"/>
</bean>
where Foo is:
public class Foo {
private final List<Class<?>> codeList;
public Foo(Class<?>... codeList) {
this.codeList = Arrays.asList(codeList);
}
}
The ConversionService does the stuff for converting comma-separated string to the Class<?>[] and tries to resolve each class on its own using BeanClassLoader