Spring @Autowired for setter methods vs non-setter methods

Question

According to @Autowired javadoc:

Marks a constructor, field, setter method or config method as to be autowired by Spring\'s dependency injection facili

Answer 1

A config method is a factory-like method, which in this case would get the paramaters autowired:

@Autowired
public SomeObject initSomeObject(Object1 o1, Object2 o2, ...) {

@Autowired merely ensures that Spring will (attempt to) provide the needed parameters.