How to autowire an alias bean?

[benze]

Hi,

I am trying to figure out if/how I can autowire a bean that has been aliased.

For example:

	<bean id="fwl.config.StandardSystemConfiguration" class="org.apache.commons.configuration.CompositeConfiguration" autowire-candidate="true" scope="singleton">
		<constructor-arg>
			<list>
				<ref bean="fwl.config.SystemPropertiesConfiguration"/>
				<ref bean="fwl.config.DefaultsConfiguration"/>
				<ref bean="fwl.config.SystemContextConfiguration"/>
			</list>
		</constructor-arg>
	</bean>
	
	<!-- standard configuration alias since this object is bound to be used quite often -->
	<alias alias="configuration" name="fwl.config.StandardSystemConfiguration" />

Is there anyway I can autowire the "configuration" bean? Does the alias help at all for the autowiring, or it serves no purpose?

Thanks,

Eric

[Marten Deinum]

If you use @Autowired by default it uses by type, so in that case the alias is pretty much useless. You can add in an @Qualifier which contains the name of the bean you want to wire.