diff --git a/cas-client-core/pom.xml b/cas-client-core/pom.xml
index 9f6f4d7..488f5ce 100644
--- a/cas-client-core/pom.xml
+++ b/cas-client-core/pom.xml
@@ -99,6 +99,28 @@
 			<version>1.1b</version>
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
-		</dependency>
+		</dependency>
+
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-bean</artifactId>
+			<version>2.5.1</version>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>		
+
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
+			<version>2.5.1</version>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>		
+
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
+			<version>2.5.1</version>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>		
+
     </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/Cas20ProxyTicketValidator.java b/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/Cas20ProxyTicketValidator.java
index 18ea289..5ef6787 100644
--- a/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/Cas20ProxyTicketValidator.java
+++ b/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/Cas20ProxyTicketValidator.java
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2007 The JA-SIG Collaborative. All rights reserved. See license
+ * distributed with this file and available online at
+ * http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/overview/license/index.html
+ */
 package org.jasig.cas.client.validation;
 
 import org.jasig.cas.client.util.XmlUtils;
@@ -39,7 +44,7 @@ public final class Cas20ProxyTicketValidator extends Cas20ServiceTicketValidator
         }
 
         for (Iterator iter = this.allowedProxyChains.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
-            if (Arrays.equals(proxiedList, (Object[]) iter.next())) {
+            if (Arrays.equals(proxiedList, (String[]) iter.next())) {
                 return;
             }
         }
diff --git a/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/Cas20ProxyTicketValidatorBeanInfo.java b/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/Cas20ProxyTicketValidatorBeanInfo.java
index bb8b07d..9883645 100644
--- a/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/Cas20ProxyTicketValidatorBeanInfo.java
+++ b/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/Cas20ProxyTicketValidatorBeanInfo.java
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2007 The JA-SIG Collaborative. All rights reserved. See license
+ * distributed with this file and available online at
+ * http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/overview/license/index.html
+ */
 package org.jasig.cas.client.validation;
 
 import java.beans.IntrospectionException;
 import java.beans.PropertyDescriptor;
 import java.beans.PropertyEditor;
 import java.beans.SimpleBeanInfo;
-import java.util.List;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.propertyeditors.CustomBooleanEditor;
 
 /**
  * BeanInfo support for using this class with Spring.  Configures a ProxyListPropertyEditor to be used with the
@@ -18,13 +24,19 @@ public final class Cas20ProxyTicketValidatorBeanInfo extends SimpleBeanInfo {
 
     public PropertyDescriptor[] getPropertyDescriptors() {
         try {
-            final PropertyEditor propertyEditor = new ProxyListPropertyEditor();
-            final PropertyDescriptor descriptor = new PropertyDescriptor("allowedProxyChains", List.class) {
+            final PropertyDescriptor descriptor = new PropertyDescriptor("allowedProxyChains", Cas20ProxyTicketValidator.class, null, "setAllowedProxyChains") {
                 public PropertyEditor createPropertyEditor(final Object bean) {
-                    return propertyEditor;
+                    return new ProxyListPropertyEditor();
                 }
             };
-            return new PropertyDescriptor[] {descriptor};
+            
+            final PropertyDescriptor acceptAnyProxy = new PropertyDescriptor("acceptAnyProxy", Cas20ProxyTicketValidator.class, null, "setAcceptAnyProxy") {
+                public PropertyEditor createPropertyEditor(final Object bean) {
+                    return new CustomBooleanEditor(true);
+                }
+            };
+            
+            return new PropertyDescriptor[] {descriptor, acceptAnyProxy};
         } catch (final IntrospectionException e) {
               throw new RuntimeException(e);
         }
diff --git a/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/ProxyListPropertyEditor.java b/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/ProxyListPropertyEditor.java
index 05a1615..ffaa0f5 100644
--- a/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/ProxyListPropertyEditor.java
+++ b/cas-client-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/ProxyListPropertyEditor.java
@@ -1,35 +1,50 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2007 The JA-SIG Collaborative. All rights reserved. See license
+ * distributed with this file and available online at
+ * http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/overview/license/index.html
+ */
 package org.jasig.cas.client.validation;
 
 import java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport;
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
 
+import org.jasig.cas.client.util.CommonUtils;
+
 /**
  * Convert a String-formatted list of acceptable proxies to an array.
- *
+ * 
  * @author Scott Battaglia
  * @version $Revision$ $Date$
  * @since 3.1
- *
+ * 
  */
 public final class ProxyListPropertyEditor extends PropertyEditorSupport {
 
-    /**
-     * The new list of proxies to create.  Its a list of String arrays.
-     */
-    private final List proxyChains = new ArrayList();
+	public void setAsText(final String text) throws IllegalArgumentException {
+		final BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(text));
+		final List proxyChains = new ArrayList();
 
-    public Object getValue() {
-        return this.proxyChains;
-    }
+		try {
+			String line;
+			while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+				if (CommonUtils.isNotBlank(line)) {
+					proxyChains.add(line.trim().split(" "));
+				}
+			}
+		} catch (final IOException e) {
+			// ignore this
+		} finally {
+			try {
+				reader.close();
+			} catch (final IOException e) {
+				// nothing to do
+			}
+		}
 
-    /** Converts the List of Strings into a list of arrays. */
-    public void setValue(final Object o) {
-        final List values = (List) o;
-
-        for (final Iterator iter = values.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
-            proxyChains.add(((String) iter.next()).split(" "));
-        }
-    }
+		setValue(proxyChains);
+	}
 }
diff --git a/cas-client-core/src/test/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/Cas20ProxyTicketValidatorTests.java b/cas-client-core/src/test/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/Cas20ProxyTicketValidatorTests.java
index 43398a6..aa0f057 100644
--- a/cas-client-core/src/test/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/Cas20ProxyTicketValidatorTests.java
+++ b/cas-client-core/src/test/java/org/jasig/cas/client/validation/Cas20ProxyTicketValidatorTests.java
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import org.jasig.cas.client.PublicTestHttpServer;
 import org.jasig.cas.client.proxy.ProxyGrantingTicketStorage;
 import org.jasig.cas.client.proxy.ProxyGrantingTicketStorageImpl;
 import org.jasig.cas.client.proxy.ProxyRetriever;
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
 
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -84,4 +86,21 @@ public final class Cas20ProxyTicketValidatorTests extends
             // expected
         }
     }
+    
+    public void testConstructionFromSpringBean() throws TicketValidationException,
+    UnsupportedEncodingException {
+    	final ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("classpath:cas20ProxyTicketValidator.xml");
+    	final Cas20ProxyTicketValidator v = (Cas20ProxyTicketValidator) context.getBean("proxyTicketValidator");
+    	final Cas20ProxyTicketValidator v2 = (Cas20ProxyTicketValidator) context.getBean("proxyTicketValidatorWithAllowAnyProxy");
+    	
+        final String USERNAME = "username";
+        final String RESPONSE = "<cas:serviceResponse xmlns:cas='http://www.yale.edu/tp/cas'><cas:authenticationSuccess><cas:user>username</cas:user><cas:proxyGrantingTicket>PGTIOU-84678-8a9d...</cas:proxyGrantingTicket><cas:proxies><cas:proxy>proxy1</cas:proxy><cas:proxy>proxy2</cas:proxy><cas:proxy>proxy3</cas:proxy></cas:proxies></cas:authenticationSuccess></cas:serviceResponse>";
+        PublicTestHttpServer.instance().content = RESPONSE
+                .getBytes(PublicTestHttpServer.instance().encoding);
+
+        final Assertion assertion = v.validate("test",
+                "test");
+        assertEquals(USERNAME, assertion.getPrincipal().getName());
+
+    }
 }
diff --git a/cas-client-core/src/test/resources/cas20ProxyTicketValidator.xml b/cas-client-core/src/test/resources/cas20ProxyTicketValidator.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..16ec091
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cas-client-core/src/test/resources/cas20ProxyTicketValidator.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd">
+
+	<bean id="proxyTicketValidator"
+		class="org.jasig.cas.client.validation.Cas20ProxyTicketValidator">
+		<constructor-arg index="0" value="http://localhost:8085/" />
+		<property name="allowedProxyChains">
+			<value>
+				test test2 test3 test4 test5
+				mytest mytest1 mytest2 mytest3
+				proxy1 proxy2 proxy3
+			</value>
+		</property>
+	</bean>
+	
+	<bean id="proxyTicketValidatorWithAllowAnyProxy"
+		class="org.jasig.cas.client.validation.Cas20ProxyTicketValidator"
+		p:acceptAnyProxy="true">
+		<constructor-arg index="0" value="http://localhost:8085/" />
+	</bean>      
+</beans>
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