This is default setting which means no autowiring and you should use explicit bean reference for wiring. You have nothing to do special for this wiring. This is what you already have seen in Dependency Injection chapter.

Autowiring by property name. Spring container looks at the properties of the beans on which autowire attribute is set to byName in the XML configuration file. It then tries to match and wire its properties with the beans defined by the same names in the configuration file.

Autowiring by property datatype. Spring container looks at the properties of the beans on which autowire attribute is set to byType in the XML configuration file. It then tries to match and wire a property if its type matches with exactly one of the beans name in configuration file. If more than one such beans exists, a fatal exception is thrown.

Similar to byType, but type applies to constructor arguments. If there is not exactly one bean of the constructor argument type in the container, a fatal error is raised.

Spring first tries to wire using autowire by constructor, if it does not work, Spring tries to autowire by byType.

Overriding possibility

You can still specify dependencies using and settings which will always override autowiring.

Primitive data types

You cannot autowire so-called simple properties such as primitives, Strings, and Classes.

Confusing nature

Autowiring is less exact than explicit wiring, so if possible prefer using explict wiring.