Spring @Autowired usage

Question

What are the pros and cons of using @Autowired in a class that will be wired up by Spring?

Just to clarify, I\'m talking specifically about the

Answer 1

We are switching from @Autowire back to XML configuration in our big project. The problem is very low bootstrap performance. Autowiring scanner loads all classes from autowiring search classpath, so, lots of classes are loaded eagerly during Spring initialization.