diff --git a/org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/configuration/AutowiredConfigurationTests-custom.properties b/org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/configuration/AutowiredConfigurationTests-custom.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..17a2bc67bcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/configuration/AutowiredConfigurationTests-custom.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+hostname=localhost
+foo=a
+bar=b
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/configuration/AutowiredConfigurationTests-custom.xml b/org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/configuration/AutowiredConfigurationTests-custom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e0c4ef6ea23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/configuration/AutowiredConfigurationTests-custom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd"
+	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+	xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util">
+
+	<context:annotation-config/>
+
+	<util:properties id="myProps" location="classpath:org/springframework/context/annotation/configuration/AutowiredConfigurationTests-custom.properties"/>
+
+	<bean class="org.springframework.context.annotation.configuration.AutowiredConfigurationTests$PropertiesConfig"/>
+
+</beans>
diff --git a/org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/configuration/AutowiredConfigurationTests.java b/org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/configuration/AutowiredConfigurationTests.java
index cacb17f224c..68755bc06f9 100644
--- a/org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/configuration/AutowiredConfigurationTests.java
+++ b/org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/configuration/AutowiredConfigurationTests.java
@@ -118,4 +118,29 @@ public class AutowiredConfigurationTests {
 			return new TestBean(name);
 		}
 	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testCustomProperties() {
+		ClassPathXmlApplicationContext factory = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
+		        "AutowiredConfigurationTests-custom.xml", AutowiredConfigurationTests.class);
+
+		TestBean testBean = factory.getBean("testBean", TestBean.class);
+		assertThat(testBean.getName(), equalTo("localhost"));
+	}
+
+	@Configuration
+	static class PropertiesConfig {
+
+		private String hostname;
+
+		@Value("#{myProps.hostname}")
+		public void setHostname(String hostname) {
+			this.hostname = hostname;
+		}
+
+		@Bean
+		public TestBean testBean() {
+			return new TestBean(hostname);
+		}
+	}
 }