First of all, add the util schema to the spring namespace:
< beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.0.xsd">
then, we should be able to use it to bind static fields to a bean property:
<util:constant static-field="com.mycompany.myproject.myclass.STATIC_FIELD"/>