Can we use @autowired on an entity object in spring?

Question

I have a entity class called Customer, I am using this entity object in another class to set the data. When I use this object below like

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Answer 1

You can only autowire only those beans whose life-cycle are managed by Spring IoC container.

These beans are defined in xml form with tag, or with some special annotations like @Bean, @Component, @Service, @Repository etc.

On the other hand,

in simple terms, entities are some java objects that you will need to create, update by yourself according to your business logic and save/update/remove them in/from DB. Their life-cycle cannot be managed by Spring IoC container.

So, you should never feel like you need to autowire an entity if you are doing it right!