package com.devua;

public class Roots {
    private static boolean inTerracottaMode = false;

...

    /**
     * @return the inTerracottaMode
     */
    public static boolean isInTerracottaMode() {
        boolean result;

        readWriteLock.readLock().lock();
        result = inTerracottaMode;
        readWriteLock.readLock().unlock();

        return result;
    }

    /**
     * @param inTerracottaMode
     *            the inTerracottaMode to set
     */
    public static void setInTerracottaMode(boolean inTerracottaMode) {
        readWriteLock.writeLock().lock();
        Roots.inTerracottaMode = inTerracottaMode;
        readWriteLock.writeLock().unlock();
    }
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd">
          
    <bean id="roots" class="com.devua.Roots"/>

    <bean id="terracottaModeInitializer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
        <property name="targetClass" value="com.devua.Roots"/>
        <property name="targetMethod" value="setInTerracottaMode"/>
        <property name="arguments">
            <list>
                <value>true</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>

</beans>