Which Dependency Injection annotation do you favor?

[Keith Donald]

It's been awhile since we did one of these...

Which dependency injection annotation do you favor?

1. @Inject
2. @Autowired
3. I don't use either.

Voting period closes in 2 weeks.

[pgrimard]

@Inject does have the advantage of being a JSR, so it can be used without the Spring framework, although how widely is it used or known of? I first saw it used in a GemFire demo not long ago I believe, and then once again at S2GX. I have not used it myself (yet). I think for users new to the Spring framework and DI in general, they'll probably use @Autowired based on what they learn in the Spring documentation or tutorials. Would be great to see some kind of blog post comparing the equivalent use of both.

[Enrico Pizzi]

I voted for @Autowired, because I learned to use it and love it, and I wouldn't like to be forced to switch. Even if @Inject comes from a jsr specification (thus decoupling even more your application from the Spring framework) I don't see it as an issue (at least in the immediate future) since there really isn't, up to now, a good DI-based framework that can offer what Spring offers.

Also, regarding jsr, since the Oracle acquisition my faith in the jcp has slowly begun to fade...but that is another matter...

[narayan_singh]

as rightly said by pgrimard, i recently started using annotation based DI and @Autowired is the first style that came naturally...
i really liked easy of use and speed of development using @autowired.

[amiladomingo]

Have never used @Inject, so voted for @Autowired. But @Inject has an advantage of being a jsr. By the way very recently only i found this annotation.
http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress....e-jsr-330-way/

[DebugMeNot]

i prefer @Inject i have used it for a long time and everything goes well about it using it can let you have less problems so i like it very much

[lewisa]

I have a preference for @Autowired, because it's fast and easy, that's my opinion!


Jeux de sport

[ravi.t]

I have prefered @autowired

[hwellmann]

@Autowired ties your code to Spring. Using @Inject, you can run your code on Spring, Weld SE, Java EE 6, Guice, ...

So don't use @Autowired if you want to be flexible.

Regards,
Harald

[Olivier Nouguier]

@Inject on new project.