Dynamically adding a list of bean references to bean definition

I'm trying to dynamically register some spring beans in my ApplicationContext by using the ApplicationContextAware interface. I'm using the BeanDefitionBuilder to build the bean definitions and I register them with DefaultListableBeanFactory.registerBeanDefinition(). The bean I'm now trying to build would look like this in XML: ``` <bean id="compositeBean" class="SomeClass"> <property name="checks"> <list> <ref bean="bean1"/> <ref bean="bean2"/> <ref bean="bean3"/> </list> </property> </bean> ``` I have a list of BeanDefinitions for (bean1, bean2, bean3) above available. When I try to use ``` BeanDefinitionBuilder.genericBeanDefinition(SomeClass.class) .addPropertyValue("checks", checks); ``` I end up with the error ``` org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'compositeBean': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.ConversionNotSupportedException: Failed to convert property value of type 'org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition[]' to required type 'SomeClass[]' for property 'checks'; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot convert value of type [org.springframework.beans.factory.support.GenericBeanDefinition] to required type [SomeClass] for property 'checks[0]': no matching editors or conversion strategy found ``` How can programmatically add the list of bean references to my compositeBean?