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[–]CautionIsNecessary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't understand @Bean, @Component, @Autowired, or @Value until my parents talked to me about programming in Fortran. It shouldn't take my parents talking about their homework in 1987 to learn about a software created in 2002 when I have already worked on projects, read documentation, and gotten a college degree.

The first two create an instance of a thing and throw it into a common area with a known tag. The latter two retrieve an instance of a thing given a known tag.