diff --git a/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/transformer/HeaderEnricher.java b/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/transformer/HeaderEnricher.java
index d2c2b4b5e0..6fb379e8d3 100644
--- a/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/transformer/HeaderEnricher.java
+++ b/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/transformer/HeaderEnricher.java
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactoryAware;
 import org.springframework.integration.core.Message;
 import org.springframework.integration.core.MessagingException;
 import org.springframework.integration.handler.ExpressionEvaluatingMessageProcessor;
@@ -164,7 +166,7 @@ public class HeaderEnricher implements Transformer {
 	}
 
 
-	static class ExpressionEvaluatingHeaderValueMessageProcessor extends AbstractHeaderValueMessageProcessor {
+	static class ExpressionEvaluatingHeaderValueMessageProcessor extends AbstractHeaderValueMessageProcessor implements BeanFactoryAware {
 
 		private final ExpressionEvaluatingMessageProcessor targetProcessor;
 
@@ -177,6 +179,10 @@ public class HeaderEnricher implements Transformer {
 			this.targetProcessor.setExpectedType(expectedType);
 		}
 
+		public void setBeanFactory(BeanFactory beanFactory) {
+			this.targetProcessor.setBeanFactory(beanFactory);
+		}
+
 		public Object processMessage(Message<?> message) {
 			return this.targetProcessor.processMessage(message);
 		}
diff --git a/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/transformer/SpelHeaderEnricherIntegrationTests-context.xml b/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/transformer/SpelHeaderEnricherIntegrationTests-context.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6349c8d1e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/transformer/SpelHeaderEnricherIntegrationTests-context.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/spring-integration.xsd">
+
+	<channel id="output">
+		<queue/>
+	</channel>
+
+	<header-enricher input-channel="simpleInput" output-channel="output">
+		<header name="testHeader" expression="2 ^ 3"/>
+	</header-enricher>
+
+	<header-enricher input-channel="beanResolvingInput" output-channel="output">
+		<header name="num" expression="headers.num ^ @testBean.value" overwrite="true"/>
+	</header-enricher>
+
+	<beans:bean id="testBean" class="org.springframework.integration.transformer.SpelHeaderEnricherIntegrationTests$TestBean"/>
+
+</beans:beans>
diff --git a/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/transformer/SpelHeaderEnricherIntegrationTests.java b/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/transformer/SpelHeaderEnricherIntegrationTests.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..769ffa1c52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/transformer/SpelHeaderEnricherIntegrationTests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2010 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.integration.transformer;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
+import org.springframework.integration.channel.PollableChannel;
+import org.springframework.integration.core.Message;
+import org.springframework.integration.core.MessageChannel;
+import org.springframework.integration.message.MessageBuilder;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
+
+/**
+ * @author Mark Fisher
+ */
+@ContextConfiguration
+@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
+public class SpelHeaderEnricherIntegrationTests {
+
+	@Autowired
+	private MessageChannel simpleInput;
+
+	@Autowired
+	private MessageChannel beanResolvingInput;
+
+	@Autowired @Qualifier("output")
+	private PollableChannel output;
+
+
+	@Test
+	public void simple() {
+		Message<?> message = MessageBuilder.withPayload("test").build();
+		this.simpleInput.send(message);
+		Message<?> result = output.receive(0);
+		assertEquals(8, result.getHeaders().get("testHeader"));
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void beanResolving() {
+		Message<?> message = MessageBuilder.withPayload("test").setHeader("num", 3).build();
+		this.beanResolvingInput.send(message);
+		Message<?> result = output.receive(0);
+		assertEquals(243, result.getHeaders().get("num"));
+	}
+
+
+	static class TestBean {
+
+		public int getValue() {
+			return 5;
+		}
+	}
+
+}