Architect's Journey

Feb 24, 2025 · Backend Development

Why I Stopped Using Spring’s @Autowired and Adopted Explicit Dependency Management

The article explains how automatic @Autowired injection can tightly couple domain models to the Spring container, hide dependencies, hinder testing, create circular‑dependency risks, and violate clean architecture, then demonstrates an explicit‑dependency approach with a custom SpringContext utility, compares both methods, and offers practical guidelines for layered design and testing.