Reading HDFS files via Spring

[Mark]

Hello all,

We have a recommendation system that reads in similarity data via a 
Spring context.xml as follows:

<bean id="similarity" 
class="org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.similarity.file.FileItemSimilarity">
<constructor-arg value="/var/data/similarity.data"/>
</bean>

Is it possible to use Hadoop/HDFS with Spring? We would love to be able 
to use something like:

<constructor-arg value="hdfs://user/mark/similarity.data">

Can this (easily) be accomplished?

Thanks for the help