Using Property Placeholder for Bean ID

Question

In Spring 3.1, is it possible to use a property placeholder to resolve the 'id' attribute of a bean?

I would like, for example, to do the following in my context.xml file:

<context:property-placeholder/>

<int:channel id="${channel.name}"/>

Answer 1

No, not for the id and the name attributes - this is based on what I have seen of how PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer resolves the placeholders.