Understanding Spring DI: @Autowired vs @Resource and Field Injection Pitfalls
Spring supports constructor, setter, and field injection, but field injection is discouraged; @Autowired (Spring‑specific, by‑type) and @Resource (standard, by‑name) differ in defaults and IDE warnings, so prefer constructor injection for required beans, setter injection for optional ones, and only use @Resource for unavoidable field injection to lessen container coupling.
