Overview
I’ve been asked several times to explain the difference between injecting Spring beans with ‘@Resource’, ‘@Autowired’, and ‘@Inject’. While I received a few opinions from colleagues and read a couple of posts on this topic I didn’t feel like I had a complete picture.
Annotations
| Annotation | Package | Source |
|---|---|---|
| @Resource | javax.annotation | Java |
| @Inject | javax.inject | Java |
| @Qualifier | javax.inject | Java |
| @Autowired | org.springframework.bean.factory | Spring |
In order to explore the behavior of each annotation I fired up Spring Tool Suite and started debugging the code. I used Spring 3.0.5.RELEASE in my research. The following is a summary of my findings.
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