posted 8 years ago
I recommend obtaining a copy of Manning's "Spring in Action" book.
Explicit wiring, as its name implies, requires the target bean to be mapped with an explicit property name/value pair for Spring to use to link the two objects.
Autowiring is based on the idea that you indicate what properties are to be autowired and Spring deduces its corresponding value. For example, I name a bean "bar", and in my bean "foo", I have an autowired "bar" property. Spring looks in its inventory for an object with name "bar" and invokes foo's "setBar()" method supplying the "bar" object.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.