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

Here are some of experience
Pros

• Makes easier to configure because we can just use @Autowire annotation
• Don't want to use setter methods , so class will be more clean

Cons

• Tightly couple to xml file even though we are using DI
• Hard to find implementation (But if you your using good ides like intellij sure you can get rid of this)

As of my personal experiences I didn't use @AutoWire annotation that much but in test cases.