are beans from the xml updatable?

[cyber]

my case is like this, i define data in my xml for testing i.e. HashMap, ArrayList, Simple Beans and the like, i have no problem getting the values.

now can i change the values of those defined in the xml?

for example i defined

<bean id="list" class="java.util.ArrayList">
     <constructor-arg>
            <list>
                    <value>1</value>
                    <value>5</value>
                    <value>3</value>
            </list>
     </construnctor-arg>
</bean>

and in my code i did this:

List list = (List) applicationContext.getBean("list");
list.set(1,"2"); // change index 2 w/c is 5 to 2.

will the next retrieve of applicationContext.getBean("list") will return 1,2,3? of the original 1,5,3?

thanks