Self injection with spring

I tried the following code with Spring 3.x which failed with BeanNotFoundException (exception cause pasted below)

Code:

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@Service
public class UserService implements Service{
  @Autowired
  private Service self;
}

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Since I was trying this with Java 6, I found the following code works fine:

Code:

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@Service(value = "someService")
public class UserService implements Service{
  @Resource(name = "someService")
  private Service self;
}

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but I couldn't understand how it resolves the cyclic dependency. Anyone?

I tried to search for the documentation but didn't find any(may be I missed), so couldn't able to make out whether this is the feature or bug ;)

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefini tionException: No matching bean of type [com.spring.service.Service] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Aut owired(required=true)}

Tip from spring documentation.

Code:

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If you intend to express annotation-driven injection by name, do not primarily use
@Autowired, even if is technically capable of referring to a bean name through
@Qualifier values. Instead, use the JSR-250 @Resource annotation, which is
semantically defined to identify a specific target component by its unique name, with the
declared type being irrelevant for the matching process.

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but still not sure about self injection

also read

3.9 Annotation-based container configuration section in documentation in case if you have missed.

I'm not worrying about whether to use name while injecting or not, I just wanted to know why @Resource Works and @Autowired doesn't and more importantly is it good to use @Resource for this kind of purpose, as I couldn't found documented behaviour for this I'm just confused whether spring will continue with this functionality or not.