Deprecate autowire attribute on @Bean annotation [SPR-17281]

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Juergen Hoeller opened SPR-17281 and commented

Autowiring by name or type is rather outdated in the meantime, in particular in the context of annotation-driven configuration but also for functional configuration. Let's therefore deprecate the autowire attribute on the @Bean annotation as of 5.1, which also goes nicely with the introduction of the similarly (but differently purposed and potentially confusing) named autowireCandidate in 5.1 (#20752).

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Issue Links:

• Support for autowire-candidate with @Bean [SPR-16204] #20752 Support for autowire-candidate with @Bean

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