Spring Autowire Fundamentals

Question

I am a newbie in Spring and am trying to understand the below concept.

Assume that accountDAO is a dependency of AccountService.

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Answer 1

and

public class AccountService {
    AccountDAO accountDAO;
    /* more stuff */
}

When spring finds the autowire property inside accServiceRef bean, it will scan the instance variables inside the AccountService class for a matching name. If any of the instance variable name matches the bean name in the xml file, that bean will be injected into the AccountService class. In this case, a match is found for accountDAO.

Hope it makes sense.