intellij incorrectly saying no beans of type found for autowired repository

I had this same issue when creating a Spring Boot application using their @SpringBootApplication annotation. This annotation represents @Configuration, @EnableAutoConfiguration and @ComponentScan according to the spring reference. As expected, the new annotation worked properly and my application ran smoothly but, Intellij kept complaining about unfulfilled @Autowire dependencies. As soon as I changed back to using @Configuration, @EnableAutoConfiguration and @ComponentScan separately, the errors ceased. It seems Intellij 14.0.3 (and most likely, earlier versions too) is not yet … Read more

@Autowired – No qualifying bean of type found for dependency

You should autowire interface AbstractManager instead of class MailManager. If you have different implemetations of AbstractManager you can write @Component(“mailService”) and then @Autowired @Qualifier(“mailService”) combination to autowire specific class. This is due to the fact that Spring creates and uses proxy objects based on the interfaces.