How to set bean value to empty or null if the property is not provided?

[Shannon Sims]

Hello,
Thanks for reviewing my post. I've created a bean using a value from the system properties. If the system property value is not provided, I would like to handle that in the Java code. Is it possible to do this?

Using
Spring 2.5
Java 5.0
JBoss 5.1

Thank you in advance for your help.

[Mark Spritzler]

You can always set properties to default values directly in your code.

private String someProperty = "someDefaultValue";

public void setSomeProperty(String someProperty) {
    this.someProperty = someProperty();
}

Mark

[Shannon Sims]

Hi Mark,
Sorry about the delay in responding. Thanks for responding to my post and your solution. Yes, your solution would definitely work if I didn't have a typo in my post...I was actually looking to see if I omit the key/value from the system properties, if I could have the bean check for a null key/value pair before setting the bean property value. I couldn't get the app to run without the key, so to work around this, I'm setting the key to an empty string. If you have another solution, I would appreciate it.

Thanks.