why autodetect option not available for me?

Question

I am trying to use autowire="autodetect"..

In eclipse code suggest does not show me autodetect as the option..But it shows other values like byname,bytype,constructor..

whats missing in my application?

Answer 1

It's not offering you autodetect because (according to the documentation), autodetect isn't an option. The valid options are byName, byType amd constructor.

Incidentally, this kind of autowiring is seriously old-fashioned. The annotations @Autowired and @Inject offer much better control over autowiring - see docs.

update: The autodetect option was deprecated as of Spring 3.x, and so it no longer appears in the documentation. It should still work, however (see the javadoc), so I was wrong to originally say that it wasn't an option.