@Autowired
is an annotation in the Spring Framework for automatic dependency injection. It tells Spring to automatically provide the
required dependencies (such as other beans or components) to a class’s fields, methods, or constructors, allowing for easier and more flexible
management of dependencies in a Spring application. In other words, it’s a way to wire up and inject dependencies into Spring components
automatically, reducing the need for manual configuration and enhancing modularity and maintainability.
In any bean class, only one constructor is permitted to declare @Autowired
with the required
attribute set to true. This
signifies the constructor to be automatically wired when used as a Spring bean. Consequently, when the required attribute remains at its default value
(true), only a singular constructor can bear the @Autowired
annotation. In cases where multiple constructors have this annotation, they
must all specify required=false
to be eligible as candidates for auto-wiring.