selective autowiring

[kryptolus]

I want only certain beans to be injected into other beans using autowiring by type.

With the "autowire" attribute, you can control whether or not a bean's properties are autowired, but I would rather turn on auto-wire globally but limit which beans can be automatically injected. Will this be possible in Spring 2.0? (And if I'm missing something, is it already possible in 1.0?)

[dejanp]

Use the default-autowire="byType" for the beans element and autowire="no" for individual bean elements you don't want to autowire.

[kryptolus]

Use the default-autowire="byType" for the beans element and autowire="no" for individual bean elements you don't want to autowire.

I think you misread my post.
I don't want to specify that a bean's dependencies should be injected. That is definitely possible in spring 1.0

I want to specify that only some specific beans should be injected into other beans via autowiring. (That is marking a bean as "injectable" or something like that)

[dejanp]

You are right, sorry. I think what you need is autowire-candidate="false", available in Spring 2.

[kryptolus]

You are right, sorry. I think what you need is autowire-candidate="false", available in Spring 2.

Thanks. That sounds exactly what I was looking for.
Do you happen to know if there's a "default-autowire-candiate" option for beans available as well?

[kryptolus]

To answer my own question: No, there isn't such a default. (At least not in the rc2 DTD).