Affected version : since 5.1

Affected section : Spring core : 1.4.5. Autowiring Collaborators

Documentation always mentions the old obsolete description vs the fact that the property is deprecated due to the @bean factory/@Autowired resolution processing that supersede name/type-based bean property injection.

Comment From: sbrannen

Closing due to https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/pull/24574#issuecomment-590083989