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

There has been very little discussion about switching environments. Most projects I've worked on it was a real issue to inject dependencies depending on the environment we are working on. With xml config it's pretty straightforward with Spring EL, and I am not aware of any nice solution with annotations. I've just figured out one:

    @Value("#{${env} == "production" ? realService : dummyService}")
    private SomeService service;

It should be working, but not a nice solution imho.