From c8869d99f58c697bf69a6761a27ced75ad771980 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Hoeller <jhoeller@pivotal.io>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:09:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate autowire attribute on @Bean annotation

Issue: SPR-17281
---
 .../main/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/Bean.java | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/Bean.java b/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/Bean.java
index 0dfdee94051..ab9cd09c8f5 100644
--- a/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/Bean.java
+++ b/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/Bean.java
@@ -248,7 +248,10 @@ public @interface Bean {
 	 * bean class itself expresses through annotations.
 	 * @see Autowire#BY_NAME
 	 * @see Autowire#BY_TYPE
+	 * @deprecated as of 5.1, since {@code @Bean} factory method argument resolution and
+	 * {@code @Autowired} processing supersede name/type-based bean property injection
 	 */
+	@Deprecated
 	Autowire autowire() default Autowire.NO;
 
 	/**