@Autowired magic in SpringBoot

Disclosure: I'm quite an experienced developer (currently go/python/bit of rust, scala/c# in the past), but a newbie when it comes to Spring Boot.

Recently, I've had to use it in one of my projects and somewhere in the code, I've come across this interesting annotation:

@Autowired

When I've read about it, I couldn't believe my eyes:

In Spring Boot, the @Autowired annotation is used for automatic dependency injection.

This means that Spring will automatically resolve and inject any beans that …

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