Hi,
it all depends on what you want to achieve. If you want to rely on beans' names (which is the prefered way at hybris) you should use @Resource annotation. @Autowire ootb wires by type.
In Spring @Resouce wires by name and if fails uses a fallback mechanism similar to @Autowire (wires by type). A good discussion on this topic can be found at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4093504/resource-vs-autowired.
Cheers, Wojtek
Note that @Autowired is not supported for injection in ServicelayerIntegrationTest (or any JUnit test that starts the platform). It would not be too useful except with a @Qualifier annotation anyway. This is because spring is not doing the wiring, hybris framework is, and looks for @Resource annotation.
